Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet with Tochi Onyebuchi

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Community Hub | Oakland, CA

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Onyebuchi invites attendees into the personal, digital, and cultural history that has shaped his art
About this Event

Novelist Tochi Onyebuchi has won or been nominated for some of science fiction and fantasy’s biggest awards. But he’s also, like many of us, someone who came of age alongside the internet, and whose understanding of his own identity as a Black artist, as well as his broader understanding of race, culture, and community, has both shaped and been shaped by his online persona. In Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Onyebuchi traces this history in reverse, examining the precarious place we are now against the rose-colored future imagined by Web 1.0. Does the internet expand our conception of what’s possible? Or confine it? And as a novelist and public intellectual, where does Onyebuchi envision us going from here? In conversation with oral storyteller, activist, writer, and poet Audrey T. Williams, Onyebuchi invites attendees into the personal, digital, and cultural history that has shaped his art. Doors at 5:30pm. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation


Book sales for this event coordinated by Pegasus Books

Attendee notice: This event will be filmed by CSPAN

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Community Hub, 1955 Broadway, Oakland, United States

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