Racing the street: race, rhetoric, and technology in metropolitan London, 1840-1900
Topinka, Robert (2020) Racing the street: race, rhetoric, and technology in metropolitan London, 1840-1900. Rhetoric and Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520343610. (In Press)
Abstract
Racing the Street tracks the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. Drawing on an archive that ranges from engineering blueprints and parliamentary committee reports to sensationalistic pamphlets and periodical press accounts, Robert J. Topinka conducts an original genealogy of the nineteenth-century London street, demonstrating how race as a technology gathers, sorts, and assembles the teeming particularities of the street into a manageable network. This interdisciplinary study offers a novel approach to the intersections of race, rhetoric, media, technology, and urban government.
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| Item Type: | Book |
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| School: | Other Divisions > Other Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Robert Topinka |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2020 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:47 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30263 |
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