The Black Androids: Writing the Technological Underground
Edward Jones-Imhotep, University of Toronto; Adriana Green, Department of African American Studies
Tue, 4/14 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne
Department of English
Join Edward Jones-Imhotep, in conversation with Adriana Green, to discuss his newest book project, “The Black Androids,” and its adaptation into a graphic novel.
Currently in development with MIT Press, and drawing on five years of historical research, “The Black Androids: A Graphic Novel,” is a collaboration with six writer-illustrators exploring the Black technological underground in New York City between 1830 and 1930, set against the rise of the Black androids — actual historical machines, built in the form of Black humans.
Edward Jones-Imhotep received his Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard University and is professor and director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is co-editor, with Wiebe Bijker and Rebecca Slayton, of MIT Press’s Inside Technology series.
An Intersections Working Group event. The Intersections Working Group, organized by Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Kinohi Nishikawa, brings authors of recently published and forthcoming monographs together with Princeton faculty for (mostly) lunchtime conversations.
