Black Digital Studies

5 credits

Bridges and intersects two interdisciplinary fields - black studies and digital humanities. Attention to knowledge production. Role of archives, collections, research centers, the black press, and digital technology. Ideas related to power, memory, resistance, perspective and respectability politics in storytelling and control of the vehicles used to do so. Recommended: introduction to sociology; and introductory courses in African American studies and communications. Offered: AWSpS.