I feel the "Race: The Power of Illusion" website is dead on with a "menu-driven" concept of race. Nakamura states it is certainly plausible to read websites that create race-regulating hierarchical menu's as lineal descendants of the dominant racial mythology that has enforced such taxonimical sleighs of band as the famed "one-drop" rule for determining the race of interracial peoples of partially African descent (Menu-Driven Identities: Making race happen online, 119). The website has that feel exactly. You start off by having quite a few choices on how to enter the site. This then gives you more choices for specifics on race. It basically allows you to go on a journey about racism throughout the times and explains how the way it was has paved the road to how it is, and will continue for how its going to be. Within these categories you are given more options and more menus to chose from. The website entails most of the key characteristics of a menu-driven website. The website isn't asking your race specifically, it is simply offering tidbits of information in regards to race and how it pertains to you. It however encompasses the "clickable" menus, the "drop downs" of categories that seem in order, like a timeline. Even though it is dead on, I don't believe it goes beyond.
Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York. Routledge, 2002. Print.
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