Black digital humanities

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.

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.

For the master’s [DH] tools will never dismantle the master’s house: An Alternative Primer for a Critical Black DH Praxis

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.

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.