• Walter Hawthorne

• archives
• race
• ethics
• history

• slavery
• naming

This paper examines the ethical implications of public, internet-based history projects that list enslaved people by name.

• Walter Hawthorne
• Richard Roberts
• Fatoumata Seck
• Rebecca Wall

• race
• history
• ethics

This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people.

• Richard Roberts
• Rebecca Wall

• ethics
• dh
• social justice
• race

• slavery
• liberation

Given the prevailing stigma and potential violence against people of slave descent in West Africa, what are scholars' ethical and political responsibilities in using the names of enslaved people who actively sought their liberation at the hands of French colonial officials during the second half of the nineteenth century in public-facing digital humanities projects?

• Marie Rodet
• Mamadou Séne Cissé

• ethics
• history
• race
• moving images

• descent-based slavery
• digital public history
• Mali
• ethics of care
• web documentary
• participatory visual research
• digital gap
• co-production
• shared authority
• equitable partnership
• transmedia
• remediation

How do you create a digital public history project on slavery with concerned communities in Mali who are increasingly at risk of violence because of the very topic of slavery?

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

• race
• archives
• pedagogy

In this paper, I examine the ethics and pedagogical implications of unnaming for the political project of historical recovery, showing how students' interpretive choices when working with archival materials illuminate the ways that deliberate unnaming can enact a shift away from anonymity and erasure and, in turn, a move towards productive engagement with the limits of knowledge and recovery in slavery's archive.

• Zeinab Parishani

• moving images
• race

• Iranian cinema
• Indian Ocean slavery

Dive into this review of Parisa Vaziri's Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive to uncover the overlooked narratives of enslaved African people in Iranian cinema, a rich tapestry of history and film that challenges established truths.

• Sarah Ciston
• Zach Mann
• Mark C. Marino
• Jeremy Douglass

• code studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning
• race
• social justice

• predictive policing
• critical code studies
• anti-racism
• software studies

In Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Ciston, Mann, Marino, and Douglass perform a critical code studies reading of CivicScape predictive policing software, detailing the racialized codes of civic control under the cloak of inaccessible AI machinations.

• Rebecca Y. Bayeck

• race
• area studies
• dh

• Black digital humanities
• learning sciences
• instructional design
• exhibition design

Black DH has at its core principles and practices that call for equity and inclusion. This article speaks to how the dialogue between Black DH and the fields of learning sciences, instructional design, and exhibition design can create new frameworks for inclusion, design, and learning for all.

• Angela Sutton
• Jessica Power

• archives
• collaboration
• data analytics
• data curation
• databases
• digitization
• ethics
• semantic web
• interdisciplinarity
• race
• social justice
• network
• public history
• social justice

• race studies

This article explores the use of community engagement and the principles behind linked data to create a spatial history database that both serves a local Black community in the US South and makes accessible the sources that complicate our understanding of the Civil War.

• Faithe J. Day

• dh
• interdisciplinarity
• race
• gender

Debates in #BlackDH traces the history and evolution of Black digital humanities through a focus on field-defining research, digital scholarship, and future directions in the study of gender and sexuality.

• Rebecca Y. Bayeck
• Joseph M. Bayeck

• dh
• digital
• globalDH
• race

• Black DH
• learning sciences
• instructional tech

This special issue explores Black digital humanities viewed and interpreted for its meanings and implications in relation to practices in the digital world and fields that affect Black experiences.

• Dhanashree Thorat

• globalDH
• infrastructure
• literary studies
• race

• Black digital humanities
• postcolonial digital humanities
• digital divide

In June 2019, Google announced a new undersea fiber-optic cable line connecting Portugal and South Africa and named it Equiano after Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was kidnapped from his Igbo village and sold into slavery. This article reads Google's infrastructural initiative against the grain of Equiano's autobiographical narrative to locate how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in and undergird Internet infrastructure projects today.

• Jina DuVernay

• archives
• race

• librarians
• libraries
• archivists
• Black digital humanities

Reflecting on my own work as a library professional, I argue that bridging the gap between the Black digital humanities and the social sciences, particularly library science, can prove to be incredibly fruitful in all phases of a digital humanity project.

• Himadri Agarwal

• cultural criticism
• games
• gender
• race

• gaming
• video games
• gamer trouble
• feminism
• media studies
• new media
• review

Reviewing Amanda Phillips' Gamer Trouble (2020)

• Ana Quiring

• digitization
• gender
• glam
• race
• gender
• materialisms
• data curation

• invisible labor
• World War II
• Lucia Moholy
• microfilm
• EEBO

Centering photographed fingertips in a feminist labor history of Early English Books Online.

• Andrew Prescott

• philosophy
• race
• dh
• cultural criticism

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bias
• Machine Learning
• Big Data

This article surveys the ways in which issues of race and gender bias emerge in projects involving the use of predictive analytics, big data and artificial intelligence (AI).

• Ravynn K. Stringfield

• race
• social media
• dh
• social justice

Exploring the particular ways in which Black graduate students utilize the digital to transform their separate experiences into collectives and engage in methods of resisting and engaging in carework.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kaiama L. Glover

• dh
• race
• area studies
• globalDH

Kaiama Glover writes on the future of Caribbean studies in Black DH.

• Bryan M. Jenkins
• Taryn K. Myers

• race
• media studies
• sound
• social justice

This study places Black podcasting within the context of more traditional forms of Black media to examine the themes of community-building, resistance, and voice.

• Angel David Nieves

• dh
• race
• cultural criticism
• ethics

• Black digital humanities
• Reflection

I propose that we in the Black DH community consider these ten principles of practice.

• Kim Gallon

• race
• dh

A brief examination of Black DH genealogy, its significant momements and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Romi Ron Morrison

• social justice
• race
• ethics
• dh
• history

• fugitivity
• computation
• bias
• blackness

A commentary on Black Computational Thought as a unique critical intervention.

• Brienne A. Adams

• social media
• media studies
• race

• Social Media
• Fandom
• Digital intimacy
• Black feminism

By examining interpersonal intimacy and interiority in cultural productions and digital fandoms, we see the demonstration of the pursuit of love, wholeness, and intimacy as labor that sustaining acts for and by Black communities.

• 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.

• Onyekachi Henry Ibekwe

• history
• race
• ethics
• cultural criticism
• data modeling
• data curation

A review of Roopika Risam's recent work: New Digital Worlds

• 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.

• Tyechia L. Thompson
• Dashiel Carrera

• pedagogy
• music
• project report
• race

This article is a classroom case study of the Intellectual Mixtape Project, an AudioVisual digital humanities module.

• Alison Martin

• race
• social justice
• geospatial
• sound
• history
• public history
• anthropology

This article uses ethnography and computational soundscape to listen to processes of gentrification in Washington, DC.

• DHQ editorial team

• race
• ethics
• cultural criticism

A statement of DHQ's position and actions in relation to structural racism.

• Sharon Block

• history
• databases
• race
• social justice
• metadata
• gender
• area studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning

Examines the representation of women and minority groups in JSTOR's topical metadata