| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Rhetoric & public culture: history, theory, critique ; 3 |
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Rhetoric and public culture (Oakland, Calif.) ; 3.
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| 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, cliché, 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 intersec |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter ebooks, viewed October 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Mass media and race relations -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
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City and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
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Technology -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
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City and town life
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Mass media and race relations
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Technology -- Social aspects
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England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0520975057 |
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9780520975057 |
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