Papers

Oprah, 419 and DNA: Warning! Identity under Construction

Oppositional Technophilia

Ethics, Epistemology, and Ethnomathematics (NASGEm newsletter vol 2 #2)

Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature

Bamana Sand Divination: Recusion in Ethnomathematics

An Ethnomathematics Comparison of African and Native American Divination Systems (National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden 2005

DJ Mathematics (presentation for Family Tech Day Feb 2005

From Hip-hop to Flip-flop

Why not end racism? (lecture for Lambda Upsilon Lambda and Alpha Phi Alpha, spring 2001)

Race, Sex and Nerds: from Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters (ASA 2000)

The Race for Cyberspace: Information Technology in the African Diaspora (draft for Science as Culture)

Africanisms in American Mathematical and Information Sciences (AFRICON 1995)

Talks

From Ethnomathematics to Ethnocomputing: power pointpresentation at ICEm-4


Other Links on Race and Science

Brain Atrophy In Elderly Leads To Unintended Racism

Links to Black Science History

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (Dr. Scott W. Williams)

African Americans in the Sciences (Mitchell C. Brown)
 

Race and IT links

Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media: Cyberspace (University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies)

Getting the Reality you Deserve (cultural politics of simulation games, by Julian Bleecker)

Culture, Class and Cyberspace Resources (Art McGee)

International Study Group on Ethnomathematics
 

Other Publications

Eglash, R., Croissant, J., Di Chiro, G., and Fouché, R. (ed). Appropriating Technology

Vernacular Science and Social Power. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Eglash, R. African Fractals: modern computing and indigenous design.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1999.

Eglash, R. “Geometric algorithms in Mangbetu design.” Mathematics Teacher, pp. 376-381, v. 91 n. 5 May 1998.

Eglash, R. “Bamana sand divination: recursion in ethnomathematics.” American Anthropologist, v99 n1, p. 112-122, March 1997.

Eglash, R. “The African heritage of Benjamin Banneker.” Social Studies of Science, v27 pp. 307-15, April 1997.

Eglash, R. "From hip-hop to flip-flop: Black noise in the master-slave circuit." in Technology and the African American
Experience: Needs and Opportunies for Study, ed. Bruce Sinclair and Rayvon Fouche, Smithsonian Press (forthcoming).

Eglash, R. "African influences in cybernetics." in The Cyborg Handbook, Chris Gray (ed), NY: Routledge 1995a.

Eglash, R. "Interview with Patricia Cowing." in The Cyborg Handbook, Chris Gray (ed), NY: Routledge 1995c.

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