To me black digital humanities is the study of the culture of black people including the way they speak, the music they make and their history. In the readings, it made a point that black people used social media so shed light on racial inequality. In “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” by… Continue reading Blog Post on Digital Humanities
I think that classes like ours make the case for Black Digital Humanities studies by themselves. I had to look up what digital humanities actually means, and when I did it’s basically exactly what we are doing in this class: using digital archives to read old literature, plays, essays and stories that give us a… Continue reading 4/26 Hot Take: The Case For Black Digital Humanities
So for my hot take, I’d like to focus on Kim Gallon’s book, Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities. My first thoughts upon reading the passages were simply amazement at how vast technology is. There’s so much data on the web, that it requires multiple teams of people to properly sort through even… Continue reading Hot Take – 4/26
This first thing I noticed about Kim Gallon’s essay was her used of the terms “black,” “Africana” and “African American,” in terms of which one is more appropriate to use. This reading informed me that the term “digital humanities” exist. Gallon wrote, “Although work on racial, ethnic, and national difference is emerging in the digital… Continue reading Hot Take: Black Digital Humanities
Thus, this piece names the “black digital humanities” as the intersection between Black studies and digital humanities, transforming the concept into corporeal reality while lending language to the work of the black digerati in and outside of the academy” ( Kim Gallon 43). This statement reminds me of intersectionality and how important this word is… Continue reading Digital Humanities Hot-take
In the Netflix adaptation of passing, Irene seems to struggle with the world around her after meeting an old friend named Clare. And is suggested they had more than just a friendship in the past, Clare is almost the opposite of Irene in that she pretends to be white has pushed that part of her… Continue reading Passing (2021)
Option 1: Uploading a filmed video to Youtube (so it can easily be embedded into the blog): Go to youtube.com and sign into your account. If you do not have one, Watch the following video to set up your account and channel if you don’t have one (in the advanced options we can change the visibility… Continue reading Creating a Preview Video for your Blog