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Author:

Topinka, Robert J., 1984- author.

Title:

Racing the street : race, rhetoric, and technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900 / Robert J. Topinka.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mass media and race relations--London--London--History--19th century.
City and town life--London--London--History--19th century.
Technology--History--London--London--History--19th century.
City and town life.
Mass media and race relations.
Technology--Social aspects.
England--London.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a genealogy of race as technology -- Sublime streets, savage city : metonymy, the manifold, and the aesthetics of governance -- Sewers, streets, and seas : types and technologies in imperial London -- Moving congestion on petticoat lane : slums, markets, and immigrant crowds, 1840-1890 -- Typical bodies, photographic technologies : race, the face, and animated daguerreotypes -- Epilogue : catachresis, cliche, and the legacy of race.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Rhetoric & public culture: history, theory, critique ; volume 3

ISBN:

0520343611
9780520343610
0520343603
9780520343603

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142898704

LCCN:

2020008839

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)