{"product_id":"technicolor-race-technology-and-everyday-life-9780814736043","title":"Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cultural impact of new information and communication technologies has been a constant topic of debate, but questions of race and ethnicity remain a critical absence. \u003cb\u003eTechniColor\u003c\/b\u003e fills this gap by exploring the relationship between race and technology.From Indian H-1B Workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, \u003cb\u003eTechniColor\u003c\/b\u003e's specific case studies document the ways in which people of color actually use technology. The results rupture such racial stereotypes as Asian whiz-kids and Black and Latino techno-phobes, while fundamentally challenging many widely-held theoretical and political assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e Incorporating a broader definition of technology and technological practices--to include not only those technologies thought to create revolutions (computer hardware and software) but also cars, cellular phones, and other everyday technologies--\u003cb\u003eTechniColor\u003c\/b\u003e reflects the larger history of technology use by people of color.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors: Vivek Bald, Ben Chappell, Beth Coleman, McLean Greaves, Logan Hill, Alicia Headlam Hines, Karen Hossfeld, Amitava Kumar, Casey Man Kong Lum, Alondra Nelson, Mimi Nguyen, Guillermo Goméz-Peña, Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, and Ben Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alondra Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814736043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2001 pg. 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHines, Alicia Headlam:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAlicia Headlam Hines\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Literature and Language Arts at the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson, Alondra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAlondra Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e is president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. A leading scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eThe Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome\u003c\/i\u003e. Her publications also include \u003ci\u003eBody and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGenetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTechnicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTu, Thuy Linh Nguyen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eThuy Linh Nguyen Tu \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Beautiful Generation; Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and of the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eExperiments in Skin: Making Race and Beauty Across the Pacific.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40847911288947,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":53.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_084cffdb-c951-4356-a09a-00f2669ac3f3.jpg?v=1686239051","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/technicolor-race-technology-and-everyday-life-9780814736043","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}