Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot / / Gregory Jerome Hampton.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham, Maryland : : Lexington Books,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (115 pages)
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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.