On pg. 181 in Chapter 5 of Digitizing Race Nakamura discusses a passage by John Perry Barlow, called "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". This passage discusses cyberspace as being a virtual place where anyone can go, regardless of race, and where one is free to share ideas and/or beliefs without fear. Nakamura gives credit to Barlow, in that he addresses race as a problem of access, but this hope for cyberspace is far from reality.
In the introduction of this book, Nakamura states that cyberspace is anything but a place where gender, race, and ethnicity are considered equal(pg. 34)but rather a place where all of these subjects are amplified. Today, many websites are created to bond a certain race or gender. For example, sites such as ivillage.com are communities for women, which leaves out the other large portion of the population...men.
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