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Article: A new groove: Black culture and technology development.(DIVERSE FORUM)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Black culture and technology are not often used in the same sentence, unless one wants to note their incompatibility. When talk turns to the "digital divide," Black populations in the United States and abroad frequently appear as the losers in the game of technological development. This is a direct legacy of 19th-century colonialist ideas concerning the supposed innate backwardness of Africa and its people, ideas that are now being replayed in the digital domain. Also, in the debates about the "digital divide," only computers and the Internet appear as valid technologies.
While one should not neglect the structural imbalances inherent in the unequal access to ...