Black inventors in the age of segregation : Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson /

Fouche, Rayvon.

Black inventors in the age of segregation : Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson / Rayvon Fouche. - Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003. - xii, 225 p. : ill. : 24 cm. - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology . - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inventing the myth of racial equality -- Liars and thieves: Granville T. Woods and the process of invention -- Lewis H. Latimer and the politics of technological assimilationism -- Shelby J. Davidson: adding machines, institutional racism, and the Black Elite -- Back to the future: reassessing black inventors in the twenty-first century.

0801873193 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2002015860

GBA3-V7858


Woods, Granville, 1856-1910.
Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928.
Davidson, Shelby J. 1868-1930.


African American inventors--Biography.
Inventions--History--United States--19th century.
Inventions--History--United States--20th century.

T39 / .F68 2003