Race in cyberspace

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Groundbreaking and timely, Race in Cyberspace brings to light the important yet vastly overlooked intersection of race and cyberspace. Cover ......Page 1 Race in Cyberspace......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 1. Race in Cyberspace: An Introduction......Page 10 2. "Where Do You Want to Go Today?" Cybernetic Tourism, the internet, and Transnationality......Page 24 3. The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage......Page 36 4. The Rewenge of the Yellowfaced Cyborg: The Rape of Digital Geishas and the Colonization of Cyber-Coolies in 3D Realms Shadow Warrior ......Page 60 5. Sexy SIMS, Racy SIMMS......Page 78 6. In Medias Race: Filmic Representation, Networked Communication, and Racial Intermediation......Page 96 7. I'll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net White Guys, the South, and Cyberspace......Page 126 8. Margins in the Wires: Looking for Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Blacksburg Electronic Village......Page 142 9. Language, Identity, and the Internet......Page 160 10. Babel Machines and Electronic IJniwereaSisra......Page 180 11. The Computer Race Goes to Class: How Computers in Schools Helped Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet......Page 200 12. Erasing @race: Going White in the (Inter)Face......Page 222 Contributors......Page 242 Index......Page 246