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Black inventors in the age of segregation : Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson /
"An interesting and challenging approach to examining the lives of three black inventors... In debunking some of the myths, including financial success and race pride, Fouchi humanizes them and examines the greater significance of their work in the context of American sociological and commercia...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
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Table of Contents:
- Inventing the myth of racial equality
- Liars and thieves: Granville T. Woods and the process of invention
- Lewis H. Latimer and the politics of technological assimilationism
- Shelby J. Davidson: adding machines, institutional racism, and the Black Elite
- Back to the future: reassessing black inventors in the twenty-first century.