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Afro-Indigenous Women Healers in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas: A Decolonial Digital Humanities Project
  • Franny Gaede
  • Ana-Maurine Lara
  • Alaí Reyes-Santos
  • Kate Thornhill
  • race
  • indigenous
  • collaboration
  • glam
  • data curation
  • project report
  • area studies
  • Black digital humanities
  • Caribbean
  • Digital archive

This interdisciplinary team placed the healers’ community at the center of the research project to publicly validate and share aspects of their knowledge with the healers, teachers, researchers, and students studying race, indigeneity, ethnobotanical medicinal healing, and intersectionality.

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Black Digital Humanities for the Rising Generation
  • Alanna Prince
  • Cara Marta Messina
  • dh
  • race
  • cultural criticism
  • ethics
  • publishing
  • Black digital humanities
  • Antiracist editorial practices
  • Black studies

The focus of Black DH and this special issue is not to define Black DH, but rather spotlight the limitless, interdisciplinary nature of Black DH and Black scholarship.

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My DH Present, Past, & Future
  • Moya Bailey
  • project report
  • social media
  • race
  • social justice
  • dh
  • Origin story
  • Race
  • Reflection

We were feminists, womanists, radical women of color finding our voices in the liminal spaces of the internet and it was beautiful.

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New Questions, Next Work
  • Bethany Nowviskie
  • race
  • cultural heritage
  • dh
  • infrastructure
  • cultural criticism
  • social justice
  • Digital humanities
  • Organizing
  • Reform
  • Mutual aid
  • Infrastructure
  • Reflection

We have pathways forward and tantalizing hints, but can scarcely imagine what it will mean to shift from extractive modes of digital research and curation — quantifying, fragmenting, pinning, hoarding — to ones that are generative, healing, open-ended, and which make us whole.

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Nutha Planets: On Telos and Digital Blackness
  • Louis M. Maraj
  • archives
  • data curation
  • race
  • social media
  • Digital blackness
  • telos
  • Sylvia Wynter

I refuse the idea that the goal of Black digital technologies and their uses remains building some Black canon of texts, some particular archive of artifacts, a catalogue of ways of being in the world somehow authentically emerging from black experience.

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Our Time Is Now (It’s Always Been Our Time)
  • Roopika Risam
  • race
  • gender
  • cultural criticism
  • Black studies
  • Ethnic studies
  • Meta digital humanities
  • Reflection

Instead, the question we should be examining is how addressing the operations of race — and its relationship to gender, sexuality, nation, disability, and colonialism, among others — is nothing less than a matter of scholarly integrity and must be put at the center of digital humanities inquiry.

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Reaping the Harvest: Descendant Archival Practice to Foster Sustainable Digital Archives for Rural Black Women
  • Jazma Sutton
  • Kalani Craig
  • archives
  • data curation
  • race
  • cultural heritage
  • history
  • oral history
  • social media
  • project report
  • Black women
  • Black digital humanities
  • History harvest
  • Memory work
  • Digital community archive

In a world that has always conceived of Black women in opposition to others, but never on her own terms, Remembering Freedom History Harvest builds a local Indiana historiography that relies less on resistant readings of archives and more on the community archives and memory work that join together in descendant archival practice as a way to generate Black women’s histories.

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The Fulll Monty
  • Elizabeth Losh
  • dh
  • race
  • cultural criticism
  • Diversity
  • Professional associations
  • Origin story
  • Reflection

Instead it might be more useful to invest energies in regional digital humanities organizations that treat access-oriented institutions and communities of color with more respect.

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Transmediation as Radical Pedagogy in Building Queer and Trans Digital Archives
  • Elspeth Brown
  • Cait McKinney
  • Dan Guadagnolo
  • Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez
  • Sid Cunningham
  • Caleigh Inman
  • Zohar Freeman
  • Amal Khurram
  • Alisha Krishna
  • Mackenzie Stewart
  • history
  • race
  • gender
  • pedagogy

    Analyzing an intensive digital collections lab focused on queer and trans community history by focusing on mapped spaces, metadata, and designed interfaces.

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    The Making and Re-making of The Philadelphia Negro
    • Stephanie Boddie
    • Amy Hillier
    • race
    • geospatial
    • collaboration
    • Digital humanities
    • Du Bois
    • GIS
    • Philadelphia
    • race
    • racism
    • Social Survey Movement
    • (anti‑)Blackness

    An exploration of primary source documents that provide new details about how W. E. B. Du Bois went about his original research mapping Philadelphia's Seventh Ward, focusing on the humanities and social science research methods that he employed.

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