A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience

by Carroll W. Pursell

Book Overview

Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a range of technologies, as makers and as users, since the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005UVYZA0
• ISBN13: 9780262661997
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher