| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, & Shelby J. Davidson. By Rayvon Fouché. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 225 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-7319-3.)

Rayvon Fouché is an assistant professor in the department of science and technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has written an interdisciplinary study that is worthwhile reading for students in the social and natural sciences. The information about three black inventors, Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson, is fresh and enlightening because he attempts to shatter the myth that their inventions were more real than the inventors. Fouché is bent on a mission to humanize black inventors by destroying the myth. In previous accounts about black inventors, their inventions have been highlighted while the inventors have remained invisible. Consequently, this book illustrates the inventive life of three black inventors relative to "how invention could be used to reap financial reward, to enter adversarial technical environments, and to maintain status within a racially constrictive institutional setting" (p. 5).

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