The Black Digital Humanities

What is the relationship between race, digital technology, and power? This question is the basis for studying and building with the “The Black Digital Humanities,” a space and tool to consider the intersections between Blackness, humanity, and digital technology, an umbrella term that includes all electronic devices, systems, and resources that produce, process, or store information. In this course, students will spend the semester exploring the ways digital technology offers opportunities to revisit, reconsider, and reimagine knowledge about the Black experience in the United States and beyond. Drawing on Black epistemologies, students will utilize, adapt, and attempt to break digital technologies to both analyze and build things that help us pose new and different questions about the human. Course readings will include texts in digital studies, new media, and the digital humanities.