Technology and the African-American experience : needs and opportunities for study / edited by Bruce Sinclair.

Other author Sinclair, Bruce.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
Descriptionix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Technology--United States. --History.
Technology--Social aspects. --United States. --History.
African Americans--History.
United States--Race relations.

Contents Integrating the histories of race and technology / Bruce Sinclair -- Landscapes of technology transfer: rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney -- Invention and innovation, 1619-1930 / Portia James -- History in the funny papers / Bruce Sinclair -- New South, new North: region, ideology, and access in industrial education / Nina Lerman -- Raising fish with a song: technology, chanteys, and African-Americans in the Atlantic Menhaden fishery / Barbara Garrity-Blake -- Pictures from an exposition / Bruce Sinclair -- 'The open road': automobility and racial uplift in the interwar years / Kathleen Franz -- The matter of race in histories of American technology / Rebecca Herzig -- Minority engineering education in the United States since 1945: a research proposal / Amy Slaton -- Museums and the interpretation of African-American history / Lonnie Bunch -- A bibliography of technology and the African-American experience / Amy Sue Bix.
Local noteLittle-344981--305131050476Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003066636
ISBN0262195046 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks T21 .T4295 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold