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Banks,
\n Adam J. Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground<\/i>.
\n Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

"The questions remain, hauntingly: Is it possible to make this nation a just
\none for Black people? Is it worth the struggle? Can technologies really be used
\nto serve liberatory ends, or is that hope just another pipe dream calling us
\nupon our awakening to resist! resist! resist! the shiny boxes we’re all sold and
\nthe promise they once held?" (xi). This books questions immix technology
\n(primarily defined here in the instrumental sense, as an apparatus or material
\ncomponent with central issues of justice and access for African Americans.
\nIt keeps fresh issues of the bi-directional look running throughout African
\nAmerican struggle, the Racial Ravine (43) and the Digital Divide (as an aspect
\nof the Ravine), the possibility of uplift and empowerment through technologies
\n(Black Planet as site for collectivity, African American design principles for
\ntechnologies and spaces of use, and the rhetorical techne of Martin King and
\nMalcolm X as technologies in themselves). <\/p>\n

Banks gives us seven chapters:<\/p>\n

I. Introduction: Looking for Unity in the Midst of Madness: Access as the ONE
\nin African American Rhetoric and Technology Studies<\/p>\n

"The overall argument I make is this: rather than answer either\/or questions
\nabout whether technological advancement and dependence leads to utopia or
\ndystopia, whether technologies overdetermine or have minimal effects on a
\nsociety’s development, or whether people (especially those who have been
\nsystematically excluded from both the society and its technologies) should
\nembrace or avoid those technologies, African American history as reflected
\nthrough its rhetorical production shows a group of people who consistently
\nrefused to settle for the limiting parameters set by either\/or binaries" [rel:
\nbricoleur] (2). Also: move beyond individual exemplars (2), refusal of
\n"postmodern hype" (3), "post-everything navel-gazers" (4), "unities are not
\nabsolute" (5). Here, Banks pushes away from certain theoretical orientations
\nwhile later preferring a set of three axes: practice, theory and pedagogy.
\n^"theory"?<\/p>\n

"There are many reasons for centralizing access in this way, but it comes
\ndown to this: more than mere artifacts, technologies are the spaces and
\nprocesses that determine whether any group of people is able to tell its own
\nstories on its own terms, whether people are able to agitate and advocate for
\npolicies that advances its interests, and whether that group of people has any
\nhope of enjoying equal social, political, and economic relations" (10).
\n^Connect this to writing and agency<\/i>, as with Baron’s account of writing
\nas a technology with dependencies on instruments and treatments of those
\ninstruments that might be improvised or tactical rather than orthodox.<\/p>\n

II. Oakland, the Word, and the Divide: How We All Missed the Moment
\nThis chapter reads technology issues alongside the ebonics debate. Banks
\nsurveys articles on access in computers and writing from Selfe (15), Moran (15),
\nPorter (16). Grabill (20), Romano (20), and Blair (20). <\/p>\n

"All technologies come packaged with a set of politics: if those technologies
\nare not inherently political, the conditions in which they are created and in
\nwhich they circulate into a society are political and influence their uses in
\nthat society (Winner, 1996), and those politics can profoundly change the spaces
\nin which messages are created, receive, and used" (23).<\/p>\n

III. Martin, Malcolm, and a Black Digital Ethos
\nIV. Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive
\nTraditions in the Digital Underground
\nV. Rewriting Racist Code: The Black Jeremiad as Countertechnology in Critical
\nRace Theory
\nVI. Through This Hell into Freedom: Black Architects, Slave Quilters and an
\nAfrican American Rhetoric of Design
\nVII. A Digital Jeremiad in Search of Higher Ground: Transforming Technologies,
\nTransforming a Nation<\/p>\n

\n
Related sources<\/dt>\n
Heidegger, M. (1986). The question concerning technology and other
\n essays<\/i>. New York: Harper.<\/dd>\n
Mitchell, W. J. (1995). City of Bits<\/i>. Campbridge, Mass.: MIT Press.<\/dd>\n
Winner, L. (1986). The Whale and the Reactor<\/i>. Chicago: U. of
\n Chicago.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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