{"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\u003cbr\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","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845539369234,"sku":"9780814736043","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f979fe83-129d-4df6-94ed-b8994ff41ba6.jpg?v=1737353254","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/technicolor-race-technology-and-everyday-life-9780814736043","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}