A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience (Hardcover)
Carroll W. Pursell
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2005-06-10
- 售價: $1,200
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 304
- 裝訂: Hardcover
- ISBN: 0262162253
- ISBN-13: 9780262162258
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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 colonial era. A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans.
Included in this rich and varied collection are a letter from Cotton Mather describing an early method of smallpox inoculation brought from Africa by a slave; selections from Frederick Douglass's autobiography and Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Confederate Patent Act, which barred slaves from holding patents; articles from 1904 by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois, debating the issue of industrial education for African-Americans; a 1924 article from Negro World, "Automobiles and Jim Crow Regulations"; a photograph of an all-black World War II combat squadron; and a 1998 presidential executive order on environmental justice. A Hammer in Their Hands and its companion volume of essays, Technology and the African-American Experience (MIT Press, 2004) will be essential references in an emerging area of study.
Carroll Pursell is Adjunct Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University, Australia.
Table of Contents:
Introduction xi I Colonial Era 1 1 African Medicine in the New World 3 Cotton Mather on Smallpox Inoculation (1716) 5 An Account of the Method and Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox in Boston (1722) 6 2 New World Skills 7 Runaway Slave Advertisements 9 A Profile of Runaway Slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787
Lathan Algerna Windley12 Advertisement for a Fugitive Slave (1769)
Thomas Jefferson14 Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State, with His Answer (1792)
Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson15 II Antebellum Years 21 3 The Persistence of Craft 23 Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820
Daniel Meaders25 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1882)
Frederick Douglass29 The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W, C. Pennington 37 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe40 A Journey in the Slave States (1856) and A Journey in the Back Country (1861)
Frederick Law Olmsted44 His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad
John P. Parker49 Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884) 54 U.S. Patent to John Percial Parker for a Soil-Pulverizer (1890) 55 Tending a Cotton Gin (1853) 58 4 The New Industrial Age 59 Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social (1851)
James F. W. Johnston61 Scenes from Oak Lawn, Lousiana Plantation (1864) 64 Slave Labor as Reported in Nile's Weekly Register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western Review (1851) 66 The History of the First Locomotives in America (1874)
William H. Brown71 Advertisement in The Liberator Seeking Colored Inventors (1834) 74 U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "Improvement in Sugar-Works" (1843) 75 U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "Improvement in Sugar-Making" (1846) 87 The Confederate Patent Act (1861) 89 III War, Reconstruction, and Segregation 91 5 Finding a Place in the Industrial Age 93 Mechanism and Art (1873) 95 Using Jokes to Invent the Expert 97 John Henry, The Steel Driving Man (1929) 98 The Eclipse Clothes Wringer (c. 1880s) 100 Woman with Bicycle (c. 1890s) 101 The Taint of the Bicycle (1902)
W. F. Fonvielle102 IV The Progressive Era 107 6 Training for the Industrial Age 109 Comments on the Advisibility of Instructing Engineering Students in the History of the Engineering Profession (1903)
L. S. Randolph111 Industrial Education; Will It Solve the Negro Problem, II (1904)
Booker T. Washington113 The Training of Negroes for Social Power (1904)
W. E. B. DuBois120 Industrial Education--Will It Solve the Negro Problem (1904)
Fannie Barrier127 Working with the Hands (1904)
Booker T. Washington132 How Electricity is Taught at Tuskegee (1904)
Charles W. Pierce136 Racial Progress as Reported in The Colored American Magazine (1902) 142 The American Negro Artisan (1904)
Thomas J. Calloway144 Results of Some Hard Experiences: A Plain Talk to Young Men (1902)
William H. Dorkins153 Manufacturing Household Articles (1904)
Samuel R. Scottron157 The Career of Mechanic John G. Howard (1902) 161 7 Inventors 163 The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years (1913)
Henry E. Baker165 Clara Frye, A Woman Inventor (1907) 172 U.S. Patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "Breathing Device" (1914) 174 V Between the World Wars 179 8 The Rural South 181 You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks
Sara Brooks183 Cotton Picking Machines and Southern Agriculture 189 We (1927)
Charles Lindbergh191 9 Industrial Employment 193 Tuskegee Ideals in Industrial Education (1926)
Joseph L. Whiting195 Women at Work: A Century of Industrial Change (1934) 199 The Typewriter (1926)
Dorothy West202 10 The Automobile 209 Automobiles and Jim Crow Regulations (1924) 211 Through the Windshield (1933)
Alfred Edgar Smith212 Running the Red Light (Tilman C. Cothran) 216 U.S. Patent to G. A. Morgan for a "Traffic Signal" (1923) 217 VI World War II and the Cold War 221 11 Learning to Fly 223 Soaring above Setbacks: The Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American Aviator
Janet Harmon Bragg225 Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th Pursuit Squadron, Air Unit (1942) 226 Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester 229 12 War Work 231 Negro Workers and the National Defense Program (1942) 233 A Black Woman at Work in a Wartime Airplane Assembly Plant 245 Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944) 246 Defense and Wartime Employment (1946-1947) 248 Bay Area Council against Discrimination, San Francisco (1942) 252 13 After the War 255 Elm City, A Negro Community in Action (1945)
C. L. Spellman257 Mechanization in Agriculture (1941-1946) 260 The Negro in the Aerospace Industry (1968)
Herbert R. Northrup265 VII The Movement and Beyond 277 14 Setting a Political Agenda 279 Revolution in a Technological Society (1971)
Samuel D. Proctor281 15 Ties to Africa 289 Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa 291 Solar Cooking Demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana
Hattie Carwell295 16 Engineering Careers 301 Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 303 History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997)
Jerry Good309 Black Women Engineers and Technologists
Valerie L. Thomas313 Careers in Science and Technology (1993) 330 17 Accessing the Information Age 339 Bridging the Racial Divide on the Internet (1998)
Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak341 Cyberghetto: Blacks Are Falling through the Net (1998)
Frederick L. McKissack, Jr.348 Troubletown (1998) 352 The Black Technological Entrepreneur (1999)
Janet Stites353 18 Technological Troubles 357 A Place at the Table: A Sierra Roundtable on Race, Justice, and the Environment, and The Letter That Shook a Movement (1993) 359 Neighbors Rally to Fight Proposed Waste-Burner (1992) 371 United States to Weigh Blacks' Complaints about Pollution (1993) 374 Presidential Executive Order 12898--Environmental Justice 377 Study Attacks "Environmental Justice" (1994) 380 New York Seminarian Promotes Environmental Justice in Africa (1996)
Paulette V. Walker382 Further Readings 385 Index 387