[Commlist] New Book: Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900

New Book in the Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique 
series from the University of California Press

Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropolitan 
London, 1840-1900

Robert Topinka

2020

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343610/racing-the-street

The book traces the history of how race was used as a technology for 
gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. 
Analysing technological materials ranging from sewer tunnels to 
photographs and building an archive that places engineering blueprints 
alongside novels and periodical press accounts, the study offers a novel 
approach to the intersections of race, rhetoric, media, technology, and 
urban government.

The University of California Press will extend a 30% discount to you 
when you purchase a copy on their site using source code 17M6662 at 
checkout.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
A Genealogy of Race as Technology

1. Sublime Streets, Savage City
Metonymy, the Manifold, and the Aesthetics of Governance

2. Sewers, Streets, and Seas
Types and Technologies in Imperial London

3. Moving Congestion on Petticoat Lane
Slums, Markets, and Immigrant Crowds, 1840–1890

4. Typical Bodies, Photographic Technologies
Race, the Face, and Animated Daguerreotypes

Epilogue
Catachresis, Cliché, and the Legacy of Race

Robert Topinka

Lecturer of Transnational Media and Cultural Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
(r.topinka /at/ bbk.ac.uk)


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