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DESCRIPTION:This talk explores Black technological experience in 19th and e
 arly 20th century America through a history of the "black androids" — autom
 ata in the form of black humans. At its core is a duality: the technologies
  that drove the androids' racist depictions also figured crucially in Black
  technological experiences\, agency\, and selfhood in 19th and early 20th c
 entury New York. From steam-men and railway sabotage plots to electrical wo
 rkers and the Harlem Renaissance\, the talk asks what a descent into the te
 chnological undergrounds might reveal about race and machines\, about the c
 hallenges of history\, and about the role of Black experiences in challengi
 ng our conceptions of technology and pointing us towards new approaches.\n\
 nEdward Jones-Imhotep is Director of the Institute for the History and Phil
 osophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. A historian 
 of the social and cultural life of machines\, he is the author of prize-win
 ning books on the entanglements of science\, technology\, and culture from 
 the 18th to 20th centuries. This talk draws from his new project\, The Blac
 k Androids\, which explores Black technological selfhood in 19th- and 20th-
 century New York.\n\nSponsored by the Division of Literature & Languages. F
 ree and open to the public.
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LOCATION:Eliot Hall\, 314
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SUMMARY:The Black Androids: History and the Technological Underground
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URL:https://events.reed.edu/event/the_black_androids_history_and_the_techno
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