Retrofuturist Speculations: Race as Technology in Olaudah Equiano’s Vision of a Future
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DOI: 10.1177/00219347231166018
Abstract: Since the 1789 publication of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself, Olaudah Equiano’s identity has confounded critics. While competing accounts of his… read more here.
Keywords: identity; equiano; race technology; olaudah equiano ... See more keywords
Cycling on the Color Line: Race, Technology, and Bicycle Mobilities in the Early Jim Crow South, 1887-1905.
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DOI: 10.1353/tech.2021.0151
Abstract: The safety bicycle arrived in the U.S. South in the middle of a transition from relative African American freedom following the Civil War to a reassertion of white hegemony in the region. This article examines… read more here.
Keywords: cycling color; bicycle mobilities; technology; race technology ... See more keywords