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List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION I 1/ INVENTING THE MYTH OF RACIAL EQUALITY 9 2/ LIARS AND THIEVES: GRANVILLE T. WOODS AND THE PROCESS OF INVENTION 26 3/ LEWIS H. LATIMER AND THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL ASSIMILATIONISM 82 4/ SHELBY J. DAVIDSON: ADDING MACHINES, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, AND THE BLACK ELITE 134 5/ BACK TO THE FUTURE: REASSESSING BLACK INVENTORS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 179 Appendixes 185 Notes 191 Essay on Sources 213 Index 221Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Woods, Granville, 1856-1910, Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928, Davidson, Shelby J, (Shelby Jeames), b, 1868, African American inventors Biography, Inventions United States History 19th century, Inventions United States History 20th century