Race in Cyberspace

Beth Kolko is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gilbert B. Rodman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

• Table of Contents,1. Race in Cyberspace an Introduction: Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman,2. Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Trasnationality: Lisa Nakamura,3. The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage: Jennifer Gonzáles,4. The Revenge of the Yellowfaced Cyborg: The Rape of Digital Geishas and Colonization of Cyber-Coolies in 3D Realms' Shadow Warrior: Jeffrey A. Ow,5. Sexy SIMS, Racy SIMMS: Rajani Sudan,6. In Medias Race: Filmic Representation, Networked Communication, and Racial Intermediation: David Crane,7. I'll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net: White Guys, the South, and Cyberspace: Tara McPherson,8. Margins in the Wires: Looking for Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Blacksburg Electronic Village: David Silver,9. Language, Identity, and the Internet: Mark Warschauer,10. Babel Machines and Electronic Universalism: Joe Lockard,11. The Computer Race Goes to Class; How Computers in School Helped to Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet: Jonathan Steren,12. Erasing @race: Going White in the (Inter)Face: Beth Kolko,Contributors,Index

"Race in Cyberspace is relevant to a rhetorically-based vision of the field because it opens up opportunities for a more insightful understanding of how race can operate in environments that assume it is- and should be- irrelevant." -- Adam J. Banks, Technical CommunicationQuarterly"This collection is the first scholarly attempt to examine issues of race in 'cyberspace.' A discussion of this subject in any medium has been pressing for more than a decade. Despite the exponential growth of the computer industry and network communications during the last twenty years, considerations of the role of 'race' in the production and popular uses of the technology have been repressed. For breaking the silence, this book will remain an important contribution... This collection will enrich scholar's understanding of race in 'cyberspace'." -- Maria Fernandez, Callaloo