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Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim todays digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most peopleknow. In fact, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, journalists, and activists. But this is a history that is virtually unknown even in our current age of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Black Lives Matter. Beginning with the simultaneous rise of civil rights and computer revolutions in the 1960s, McIlwain, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet. In turn, he argues that the forgotten figures who worked to make blackpolitics central to the Internets birth and evolution paved the way for todays explosion of racial justice activism. From the 1960s to present, the book examines how computing technology has been used to neutralize the threat that black people pose to the existing racial order, but also how blackpeople seized these new computing tools to build community and wealth, and to wage a war for racial justice.Through archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history, Black Software centralizes African Americans role in the Internets creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United States and across the globe.Charlton D. McIlwain is Vice Provost of Faculty Engagement & Development at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYUs Steinhardt School. He is also the Founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies, and the co-author of Race Appeal: How CandidatesInvoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns, winner of the 2012 APSA Ralph Bunche Award.Book specifications:Dimensions: 234 x 158Author: Charlton D. McilwainCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2021Publishing Month: 9Pages: 312Language: EnglishPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAWeight: 476 g
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