Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace

Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Deftly interweaving history, culture, and critical theory, Anna Everett traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace, particularly during the early years of the Internet. She challenges the problematic historical view of black people as quintessential information-age outsiders or poster children for the digital divide by uncovering their early technolust and repositioning them as eager techno...