It began as a series of isolated references — the term would appear in a historical article here, a book there. Edward Jones-Imhotep soon began noticing references to “Black androids” everywhere.
They were historically called “automata” — automatic machines that, in this case, replicated the actions of human beings.
![Alumni Lindsay Zier-Vogel and the cover of the book, "Letters to Amelia."](https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ne_3btn_widget/public/zier-vogel-book-composite-lead.png?itok=iTvAWQ6z "Alumni Lindsay Zier-Vogel and the cover of the book, "Letters to Amelia."")
