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?
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
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