Black Digital Humanities in the Rising Generation
Edited by Alanna Prince, Cara Marta Messina, Izetta Autumn Mobley
Black Digital Humanities for the Rising Generation- Alanna Prince
- Cara Marta Messina
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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.
Whole Self to the World: Creating Affective Worlds and Black Digital Intimacy in the Fandom of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and InsecureEN
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.
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
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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.
Digital Black Voices: Podcasting and the Black Public Sphere- Bryan M. Jenkins
- Taryn K. Myers
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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.
Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational ThoughtEN
A commentary on Black Computational Thought as a unique critical intervention.
#BlackScholarJoy: The Labor, Resistance and Joy Practices of Black Women Graduate StudentsEN
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.
Reaping the Harvest: Descendant Archival Practice to Foster Sustainable Digital Archives for Rural Black WomenEN
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.
My DH Present, Past, & FutureEN
We were feminists, womanists, radical women of color finding our voices in the liminal spaces of the internet and it was beautiful.
Looking Backward and Forward: Pleasure, Joy, and the Future of Black DHEN
A brief examination of Black DH genealogy, its significant momements and events.
Caribbean Futures in Black DHEN
Kaiama Glover writes on the future of Caribbean studies in Black DH.
The Fulll MontyEN
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.
Nutha Planets: On Telos and Digital BlacknessEN
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.
New Questions, Next WorkEN
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.
Our Time Is Now (It’s Always Been Our Time)EN
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.