3. “The Black Purposes of Space Travel”: Black Twitter as Black Technoculture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Distributing Blackness: Ayo Technology! Texts, Identities, and Blackness 17
5. 2. Information Inspirations: The Web Browser as Racial Technology 38
6. 3. “The Black Purposes of Space Travel”: Black Twitter as Black Technoculture 79
7. 4. Black Online Discourse, Part 1: Ratchetry and Racism 125
8. 5. Black Online Discourse, Part 2: Respectability 171
9. 6. Making a Way out of No Way: Black Cyberculture and the Black Technocultural Matrix 210
10. Acknowledgments 243
11. Notes 245
12. References 251
13. Index 267
14. About the Author 271