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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452540103321

Autore

Nakamura Lisa

Titolo

Cybertypes : race, ethnicity, and identity on the Internet / / Lisa Nakamura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-93837-6

0-203-95336-3

1-135-22205-3

0-203-69918-1

1-135-22206-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00285/4678

Soggetti

Race awareness

Race discrimination

Internet - Social aspects

Cyberspace - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-166) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Cybertypes Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction;  Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction;  Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces;  Race in the Construct and the Construction of Race: The ""Consensual Hallucination"" of Multiculturalism in the Fictions of Cyberspace;  ""Where Do You Want to Go Today?"": Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality

Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen OnlineConclusion ; Keeping It (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.