Black Software - The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

List of contents

• Prologue


• Chapter One: The Great Equalizer


• Chapter Two: Different Strokes


• Chapter Three: The Roxbury Shake


• Chapter Four: The Vanguard


• Chapter Five: Black Software Comes to Cambridge


• Chapter Six: The Electronic Village Needs an Organizer


• Chapter Seven: Want Ad for a Revolution


• Chapter Eight: The Battle for (Black) Cyberspace


• Chapter Nine: 100 Years Black: A Cautionary Tale


• Chapter 10: Taking IT to the Streets


• Chapter Eleven: Collision Course


• Chapter Twelve: The Revolution, Brought to You by IBM


• Chapter Thirteen: The Committeemen


• Chapter Fourteen: What Happened at the Homestead


• Chapter Fifteen: Kansas City Burning


• Chapter Sixteen: The Man's Best Friend


• Chapter Seventeen: Digital Technology: Our Past Is Prologue


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Charlton D. McIlwain is Vice Provost of Faculty Engagement & Development at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU's Steinhardt School. He is also the Founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies, and the co-author of Race Appeal:How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns, winner of the 2012 APSA Ralph Bunche Award.

Product details

• Authors: Charlton D. McIlwain, Charlton D. (Professor of Media Mcilwain
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2020
• EAN: 9780190863845
• ISBN: 978-0-19-086384-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Civics and citizenship, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General