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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2002.Description: xix, 169 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0415938368(cased) :
  • 0415938376(pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8002854678 21
Contents:
Cover; CybertypesRace, Ethnicity, and Identityon 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; CybertypesRace, Ethnicity, and Identityon 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.

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