| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3 | The History Cooperative

Rayvon Fouché. Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 255. $34.95.
My first assignment in graduate school was to be a teaching assistant for Edwin T. Layton, Jr., the renowned historian of technology who is also cited in the first endnote of Rayvon Fouché's fine study of black inventors in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Layton and other historians of technology of his generation reoriented the entire history of technology away from a dry study of the details of technological artifacts and toward recognition that technology was always embedded within society and that technological artifacts can only be understood as part of larger technological and social systems.	1
In the 1960s and 1970s, while Layton and others were reconceptualizing the history of technology, African-American history was undergoing a similar reinvention. In that field, historians increasingly found ways that African Americans created their own social spaces away from white oppression and resisted portraying African-American action as occurring solely in response to that oppression. Concomitant with this new historiography was a decrease in the "Great Man" practice of African-American history: the race leader who heroically succeeded in the face of the racism and discrimination of American society.	. . .

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