Title | Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Gallon, Kim, Matthew K. Gold, and Lauren F. Klein |
Pagination | 42-49 |
Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
ISBN Number | 978-0-8166-9954-4 |
Abstract | The dust has yet to settle around the debates over what the digital humanities is or is not. Boundaries and demarcations continue to shift within a complex and ongoing conversation about the intersection of technology with humanistic fields. This context, I would argue, has generated the ideal conditions in which to engage the question of how humanity is framed in the digital humanities. To this end, I seek to articulate a relationship between the digital humanities and Africana/African American/Black studies (from here on I will call the field Black studies) so as to highlight how technology, employed in this underexamined |
URL | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.7 |