Abstract:
This essay examines the ways in which ethnic minorities are engaging with representations of ethnicity on the Web through the production and
consumption of forms of auto/biography. For the purposes of this study, auto/biographical Web texts are defined as those in which the authors represent
themselves, their ethnicities and/or their ethnic communities. In particular, it highlights the relationships of representational power between those who
seek to write about the lives of the ethnic communities of which they are part, and the consumers of such forms of texts, including those who are spoken
for. How is this ethnic author/ethnic reader relation inflected by gender? The dynamics examined in this research are between a group of ethnic minority
female Web consumers and ethnic minority male Web producers.
