Finding a Place in Cyberspace.
The article deliberates on African American women, technology, and identity. Race and gender take on a number of different forms when they intersect with technology, although most of those permutations resemble their real time counterparts, where atavistic attitudes and practices exist alongside pro...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 48 - 60 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2005
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