Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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Table of 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.