In the early 1900s, Black Americans searched for a new identity during the Great Migration. This period of time marked African Americans moving from the south to Harlem, New York City. Harlem was originally designed to be an upper-class white neighborhood 20 years prior to the Great Migration, which led to certain white residents fighting… Continue reading Black Excellence Thrives On – 500 word Draft
My focus theme will be on Black excellence and worthy Black contributions to society. I am aiming to explain and demonstrate Black excellence and Black contributions to society how directly relates to Black humanity. The significance of my chosen theme is to emphasis the role lost Black Literature plays a role in recovering Black humanity.… Continue reading Bre’s Final Blog Site Proposal
My Hot Take will be focused on the book “Making a Case for Black Digital Humanities” by Kim Gallon. This reading was one I found very fascinating, and I learned about the concept of Black Digital Humanities, which is the intersection of Black studies and digital humanities. The article had a lot to say about… Continue reading Hot Take on Black Digital Humanities
The article on black digital humanities really helps me understand how important archived articles are to understand history. I think in one of the slides that was show in class the question was posed why “black” digital humanities. Now many would have a different answer but I think it is important to underhand that for… Continue reading Hot take on Black digital humanities
Today’s in-class discussion about the readings based on Black Digital Humanities made me think a lot about history as it happens online. Increasingly, what is said and shared on the internet is as important as what happens in the physical world. Many of us take for granted that everything online will be recorded and exist… Continue reading How Should we be Archiving the Internet?
The study of black people’s culture, including the way they speak, the music they make, and their history, is known as black digital humanities. In “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” by Kim Gallon, Black Digital Humanities Gallons argument provided. That We have a chance to reclaim this humanities by forcing on the… Continue reading Hot take 4/26
After reading Kim Gallon’s “Make a Case for the Black Humanities”, a particular quote stuck out to me. Gallon explains, “Recovery rests at the heart of Black studies, as a scholarly tradition that seeks to restore the humanity of black people lost and stolen through systemic global racialization.” In other words, Gallon is explaining how… Continue reading Hot Take: Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities
In “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” by Kim Gallon, Black Digital Humanities should be founded on lost Black literary texts. I like this point because I feel like the dehumanizing of Black people is heavily rooted in African cultures not having a “written” word. While we now know this to be true,… Continue reading Black Digital Humanities Hot Take
Digital Humanities have decentralized the way information is receive and distributed. The claim here is that through power of the internet and social media, humanity has been restored to Blacks. As we all know information is plays an important role in our lives. Whether we know it or not information controls the mass, which is… Continue reading HOT TAKE FOR 4/26/2022