Technology and the African-American experience
Subtitle: needs and opportunities for study
By: edited by Bruce Sinclair
Contributors: Sinclair, Bruce
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Technology -- United States -- History; Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; African Americans -- History; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Integrating the histories of race and technology / Bruce Sinclair; title: Landscapes of technology transfer: rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney; title: Invention and innovation, 1619-1930 / Portia James; title: History in the funny papers / Bruce Sinclair; title: New South, new North: region, ideology, and access in industrial education / Nina Lerman; title: Raising fish with a song: technology, chanteys, and African-Americans in the Atlantic Menhaden fishery / Barbara Garrity-Blake; title: Pictures from an exposition / Bruce Sinclair; title: 'The open road': automobility and racial uplift in the interwar years / Kathleen Franz; title: The matter of race in histories of American technology / Rebecca Herzig; title: Minority engineering education in the United States since 1945: a research proposal / Amy Slaton; title: Museums and the interpretation of African-American history / Lonnie Bunch; title: A bibliography of technology and the African-American experience / Amy Sue Bix