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OverviewRacing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert J. TopinkaPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 3 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780520343610ISBN 10: 0520343611 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 18 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction A Genealogy of Race as Technology 1. Sublime Streets, Savage City Metonymy, the Manifold, and the Aesthetics of Governance 2. Sewers, Streets, and Seas Types and Technologies in Imperial London 3. Moving Congestion on Petticoat Lane Slums, Markets, and Immigrant Crowds, 1840–1890 4. Typical Bodies, Photographic Technologies Race, the Face, and Animated Daguerreotypes Epilogue Catachresis, Cliché, and the Legacy of Race Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe primary virtue of this book is Topinka's lucid and profound analyses. . . . Essentially insightful and provides a new take on matters of much relevance. * Journal of British Studies * The primary virtue of this book is Topinka's lucid and profound analyses. . . . Essentially insightful and provides a new take on matters of much relevance. * Journal of British Studies * An intriguing text that reveals what thinking about race and new materialism in the context of nineteenth-century London can do for contemporary rhetorical scholars. * Rhetoric Society Quarterly * Author InformationRobert J. Topinka is Lecturer in Transnational Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for the project, “Politics, Ideology, and Rhetoric in the 21st Century: The Case of the Alt-Right.” Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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