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.