Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
Lisa Nakamura
Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet. While popular media depict people of color and women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics. Winner of the Asian American Studies Association award in Cultural Studies, 2010 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Year of Publication: 2007 # of Pages: 256 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4613-5 Notes, Comments, Reviews: "With Digitizing Race, Lisa Nakamura, one of the most perceptive observers of identity in the digital age, skillfully draws our attention to those taken for granted interfaces at which race and ethnicity are constituted, revealing the centrality of these techno-visual practices to contemporary political culture." —Alondra Nelson, co-editor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life