Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
With chapter subtitles such as "Identity Tourism, Avatars, and  Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces" and "Making  Race Happen Online," Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity  on the Internet shows the tenaciousness of race categories in  cyberspace, despite the Web's touring as a raceless utopia. Lisa  Nakamura, associate professor of English at Sonoma State  University, argues that "race, as vexed a term as that has come  to be, is an indispensable part of the 'root' that warrants,  anchors and conditions the lives of actual users in cyberspace  to the world offline," and that only by paying close attention  to race's offline vicissitudes will we understand online life.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.