Edited by Rebecca Y. Bayeck and Joseph Bayeck
Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities- Rebecca Y. Bayeck
- Joseph M. Bayeck
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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.
Debates in #BlackDH: Key Moments and Queer Directions in Black Studies ScholarshipEN
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.
Bridging the Gap of Exhibition Design, Instructional Design, and the Learning Sciences for the Future of Black Digital HumanitiesEN
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.
Infrastructural Sovereignty in the Black AtlanticEN
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.
Decolonial by Design: Building Sekuru's StoriesEN
Sekuru's Stories is a co-authored digital humanities project that contributes toward the decoloniality of knowledge through the music and oral histories of Zimbabwean mbira player Sekuru Tute Chigamba.
Community-Driven Linked Data Approaches in Builders and Defenders: Nashville's Historical Black Civil War Database- Angela Sutton
- Jessica Power
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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.
Library Professionals: Instrumental in Black Digital HumanitiesEN
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.