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Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

1 online resource (115 pages)

ISBN 9780739191460 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780739191453 (cloth : alk. paper)

Print version: Hampton, Gregory Jerome. Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday’s slave with tomorrow’s robot. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : Reading the writing on the wall -- Racing robots and making slaves : how the past informs the future -- Proslavery thought and the black robot : selling household appliances to Southern belles -- The true cult of humanhood : displacing repressed sexuality onto mechanical bodies -- The tragic mulatto and the android : imitations of life in literature and on the silver screen -- AI (artificial identity) : the new negro -- From Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae : black robots singing and dancing -- Conclusion : When the revolution comes.

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