Technology and the African-American experience : needs and opportunities for study / edited by Bruce Sinclair. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004. - ix, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Integrating the histories of race and technology / Bruce Sinclair -- Landscapes of technology transfer: rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney -- Invention and innovation, 1619-1930 / Portia James -- History in the funny papers / Bruce Sinclair -- New South, new North: region, ideology, and access in industrial education / Nina Lerman -- Raising fish with a song: technology, chanteys, and African-Americans in the Atlantic Menhaden fishery / Barbara Garrity-Blake -- Pictures from an exposition / Bruce Sinclair -- 'The open road': automobility and racial uplift in the interwar years / Kathleen Franz -- The matter of race in histories of American technology / Rebecca Herzig -- Minority engineering education in the United States since 1945: a research proposal / Amy Slaton -- Museums and the interpretation of African-American history / Lonnie Bunch -- A bibliography of technology and the African-American experience / Amy Sue Bix.

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Technology--History.--United States
Technology--Social aspects--History.--United States
African Americans--History.


United States--Race relations.

T21 / .T4295 2004