Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropo

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Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900 Volume 3

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PublisherUniversity of California Press
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780520343610
PublishedJul 29 2020
Dimension8.9 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches
Weight 0.7 pounds
BISACLanguage Arts & Disciplines > Rhetoric
Categories(Single Author) Asian American
LanguageEnglish

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Racing the Street traces the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. Drawing on an archive that ranges from engineering blueprints and parliamentary committee reports to sensationalistic pamphlets and periodical press accounts, Robert J. Topinka conducts an original genealogy of the nineteenth-century London street, demonstrating how race as a technology gathers, sorts, and assembles the teeming particularities of the street into a manageable network. This interdisciplinary study offers a novel approach to the intersections of race, rhetoric, media, technology, and urban government.

Author Bio

My areas of expertise are in technology, the city, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and race. I examine the ways in which media and technology affect everyday life and urban governance.

My research spans disciplines and time periods, drawing on urban studies, media theory, rhetoric, and aesthetics to examine the history and present of media, race, and urban life. I would be happy to supervise PhD students researching topics related to any of these themes.

I am currently Co-Investigator on the AHRC-Funded project, 'Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the "Alt-Right"'.

My monograph, Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900 was published in 2020 by University of California Press.

I’ve published research in New Media & Society, Politics, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Visual Communication, Citizenship Studies, Foucault Studies, and elsewhere.

Education

PhD, Northwestern University, 2015

Source: BirkBeck University of London

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