Awa Hanane Diagne (Author)
Emily Grenon (Author)
Syeda Hasan (Author)
Holly K. M. Johnstone (Author)
Jones-Imhotep, Edward Charles (Author)
Alexander Offord (Author)
Neve Ostry Young (Author)
Sarai Rudder (Author)
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Volume: 54
Issue: 3
Pages: 407-421
This article offers some key terms for thinking through the history of the Black Androids, a group of racialized automata, created between the mid–sixteenth century and the late twentieth-century, that form part of the intersecting histories of slavery, automation, rebellion, science fiction, and artificial intelligence. Using the technologies of their time—clockworks, steam, electricity—these machines portrayed Black people in pastoral, leisurely, and pre-industrial roles, ironically embodying the myth that technology is opposed to Blackness.1 As a small interdisciplinary research team assembled in May 2021, we undertook a project to better understand these objects and the histories they might uncover and make possible. The collection of entries that follows is meant to embody some of the results of that research and collaboration.
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