Race in Cyberspace

Race in Cyberspace. Kolko, Beth E., Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman, eds. New York and London: Routledge, 2000.

CONTENTS listed here:[1]

Reviewed briefly by Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu on line in Politics and Culture, 2001, Issue 1 (published 10 August 2010).[2] Reviewed at greater length by Doris Dewitt, "Race Space," Science Fiction Studies #90 = 30.2 (July 2003): 323-26, our initial and primary source.[3]

From the Politics and Culture review:

As the editors make clear, thinking about “race” only in terms of zeros and ones - or “black and white” - is a limited way of understanding the complexities of real and virtual life in the 21st century.

The essays in this noteworthy collection challenge this Manichean logic from diverse perspectives, including textual analysis, participant observation, media analysis, and critical theory; each chapter works in its own way to bring into relief the racial politics of cyberculture. Race in Cyberspace is the first concerted effort to tackle the dearth of research, writing and theorizing about race in the emerging discourses of cyberculture, and similarly important, among the first to systematically expose a presumption of what one contributor terms ”cyberwhiteness” in existing scholarship. Contributors provide many examples of why race matters as much, if differently, online, as it does offline. (Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu)

RDE, Initial Compiler, 17 July 2019