A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American ExperienceCarroll Pursell MIT Press, 11 août 2006 - 416 pages Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a range of technologies, as makers and as users, since the colonial era. A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans. Included in this rich and varied collection are a letter from Cotton Mather describing an early method of smallpox inoculation brought from Africa by a slave; selections from Frederick Douglass's autobiography and Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Confederate Patent Act, which barred slaves from holding patents; articles from 1904 by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois, debating the issue of industrial education for African-Americans; a 1924 article from Negro World, "Automobiles and Jim Crow Regulations"; a photograph of an all-black World War II combat squadron; and a 1998 presidential executive order on environmental justice. A Hammer in Their Hands and its companion volume of essays, Technology and the African-American Experience (MIT Press, 2004) will be essential references in an emerging area of study. |
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... Agricultural , Economical , and Social ( 1851 ) James F. W. Johnston 61 Scenes from Oak Lawn , Louisiana Plantation ( 1864 ) 64 Slave Labor as Reported in Nile's Weekly Register ( 1849 ) and DeBow's Southern and Western Review ( 1851 ) ...
... Agricultural , Economical , and Social ( 1851 ) James F. W. Johnston 61 Scenes from Oak Lawn , Louisiana Plantation ( 1864 ) 64 Slave Labor as Reported in Nile's Weekly Register ( 1849 ) and DeBow's Southern and Western Review ( 1851 ) ...
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... for a " Breathing Device " ( 1914 ) 174 V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS 179 8 The Rural South 181 You May Plow Here : The Narrative of Sara Brooks 183 Sara Brooks Cotton Picking Machines and Southern Agriculture 189 We ( 1927 vii Contents.
... for a " Breathing Device " ( 1914 ) 174 V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS 179 8 The Rural South 181 You May Plow Here : The Narrative of Sara Brooks 183 Sara Brooks Cotton Picking Machines and Southern Agriculture 189 We ( 1927 vii Contents.
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... Agriculture 189 We ( 1927 ) 191 Charles Lindbergh 9 Industrial Employment 10 193 Tuskegee Ideals in Industrial Education ( 1926 ) 195 Joseph L. Whiting Women at Work : A Century of Industrial Change ( 1934 ) The Typewriter ( 1926 ) 202 ...
... Agriculture 189 We ( 1927 ) 191 Charles Lindbergh 9 Industrial Employment 10 193 Tuskegee Ideals in Industrial Education ( 1926 ) 195 Joseph L. Whiting Women at Work : A Century of Industrial Change ( 1934 ) The Typewriter ( 1926 ) 202 ...
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... Agriculture (1941–1946) 260 The Negro in the Aerospace Industry (1968) Herbert R. Northrup 265 VII THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND 277 14 Setting a Political Agenda 279 Revolution in a Technological Society (1971) 281 Samuel D. Proctor 15 Ties ...
... Agriculture (1941–1946) 260 The Negro in the Aerospace Industry (1968) Herbert R. Northrup 265 VII THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND 277 14 Setting a Political Agenda 279 Revolution in a Technological Society (1971) 281 Samuel D. Proctor 15 Ties ...
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Table des matières
COLONIAL ERA | 1 |
New World Skills of the Africans | 7 |
1792 | 15 |
ANTEBELLUM YEARS | 21 |
1861 44 | 23 |
The New Industrial Age | 59 |
WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND SEGREGATION | 91 |
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | 107 |
WORLD WAR II AND THE COLD WAR | 221 |
1942 | 229 |
After the War | 255 |
THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND | 277 |
Ties to Africa | 289 |
Engineering Careers | 301 |
Accessing the Information Age | 339 |
Technological Troubles | 357 |
Inventors | 163 |
BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS | 179 |
Industrial Employment | 193 |
The Automobile | 209 |
Neighbors Rally to Fight Proposed WasteBurner 1992 | 371 |
Presidential Executive Order 12898Environmental Justice | 377 |
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