I had this come through my email from a popular culture/internet
listserv. I haven't read it or know anything more...just thought I
would pass it on to interested parties.

Peace,
Hermetic


DIGITIZING RACE: Visual Cultures of the Internet
Lisa Nakamura
University of Minnesota Press | 304 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4612-8 | hardcover | $58.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-4613-5 | paperback | $19.50

Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in
digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and
gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely
evaluated
uses of the Internet. While popular media depict people of color and
women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the
Internet
to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar
bodies, and racial politics.

"With Digitizing Race, Lisa Nakamura, one of the most perceptive
observers of identity in the digital age, skillfully draws our
attention to those taken for granted interfaces at which race and
ethnicity are constituted, revealing the centrality of these
techno-visual practices to contemporary political culture." —Alondra
Nelson

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the
book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nakamura_digitizing.html