Nakamura begins this reading by pointing out that many people perusing the internet have decided that it is colorblind, and not gender bias because all internet users have the same amount of ease of accessibility to access to creating a web space or that these internet users identity are only viewed through an ambiguous and androgynous computer monitor of sorts.
Even conceiving this notion of race and gender not existing in any way on internet web pages is ridiculous. As long as humans have personal preferences and the ability to customize a web page in anyway there will be visible racial preference occurring on any website.
Nakamura also believes gender and race is witnessed when viewing internet pages.
Race: The Power of Illusion is a website interactive interface on PBS.org. The website attemps to teach its users about the world of race and the ludicracy of our civilazation looking at other races as if they were different people. Unfortunately this website shows that it is racist its self when scrutinized by Nakamura concepts and her idea of Menu-drivin webpages.
Race: The Power of Illusion offeres fun facts about race through history and information on how to better ones self when identifying racial issues. The website also is incorporated with a game where the user is able to arrange a bunch of people that look like different races into categories that the user may see fit for them to be associated with. This game however does not offer many different choices of races or give any choices for whether these people with in the game that your cyber-typing have any mixed haritage nor does the game offer any categories to organize mixed races. this website thus implies that only the races acknowledged on the webpage are important enough to be acknowledged and all other races are seen as they don't exist or that they are some sort of non-important sub category.
work cited
Nakamura, L. (2002). Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge.
“RACE – The Power of an Illusion | PBS.” PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.
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