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Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot
- Title
- Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot / Gregory Jerome Hampton.
- Author
- Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 95 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Technology in popular culture > History and criticism
- Technology > Social aspects
- Robots in art > History
- African Americans in popular culture > History > 21st century
- Slavery > Social aspects
- Slavery in art
- Androids > Social aspects
- Androids in art
- Fugitive slaves
- Science fiction television programs
- Technology in popular culture
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Reading the writing on the wall -- Racing robots and making slaves : how the past informs the future -- Proslavery thought and the black robot : selling household appliances to Southern belles -- The true cult of humanhood : displacing repressed sexuality onto mechanical bodies -- The tragic mulatto and the android : imitations of life in literature and on the silver screen -- AI (artificial identity) : the new negro -- From Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae : black robots singing and dancing -- Conclusion : When the revolution comes.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-996
- ISBN
- 9780739191453
- 0739191454
- 9781498527583
- 1498527582
- LCCN
- 2015027860
- OCLC
- 914257097
- Author
- Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019, author.
- Title
- Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot / Gregory Jerome Hampton.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-996