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The Digital Black Atlantic

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Roopika Risam
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Kelly Baker Josephs

This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diaspora’s range—from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean—while its essayists span academic fields—from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies.

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Digital Black Atlantic projects and a journal referenced in the interview:

  • sx: a small literary salon
  • Sonya Donaldson’s Singing into the Nation
  • Kaiama Glover and Alex Gil’s In the Same Boats
  • Schuler Espirit’s Create Caribbean
  • Roopika Risam’s The Global Du Bois Project

Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Digital Black Atlantic | Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam
  • Part I. Memory
    • 1. The Sankofa Principle: From the Drum to the Digital | Abdul Alkalimat
    • 2. The Ephemeral Archive: Unstable Terrain in Times and Sites of Discord | Sonya Donaldson
    • 3. An Editorial Turn: Reviving Print and Digital Editing of Black-Authored Literary Texts | Amy E. Earhart
    • 4. Access and Empowerment: Rediscovering Moments in the Lives of African American Migrant Women | Janneken Smucker
    • 5. Digital Queer Witnessing: Testimony, Contested Virtual Heritage, and the Apartheid Archive in Soweto, Johannesburg | Angel David Nieves
  • Part II. Crossings
    • 6. Digital Ubuntu: Sharing Township Music with the World | Alexandrina Agloro
    • 7. Text Analysis for Thought in the Black Atlantic | Sayan Bhattacharyya
    • 8. Austin Clarke’s Digital Crossings | Paul Barrett
    • 9. Radical Collaboration to Improve Library Collections | Hélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor
    • 10. Digital Reconnaissance: Re(Locating) Dark Spots on a Map | Jamila Moore Pewu
  • Part III. Relations
    • 11. Heterotopias of Resistance: Reframing Caribbean Narratives in Digital Spaces | Schuyler Esprit
    • 12. Signifying Shade as We #RaceTogether Drinking Our #NewStarbucksDrink “White Privilege Americana Extra Whip” | Toniesha L. Taylor
    • 13. Slaves, Freedmen, Mulattos, Pardos, and Indigenous Peoples: The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese Empire | Agata Błoch, Demival Vasques Filho, and Michał Bojanowski
    • 14. Digitizing the Humanities in an Emerging Space: An Exploratory Study of Digital Humanities Initiatives in Nigeria | Tunde Opeibi
    • 15. Black Atlantic Networks in the Archives and the Limits of Finding Aids as Data | Anne Donlon
  • Part IV. Becomings
    • 16. Africa and the Avatar Dream: Mapping the Impacts of Videogame Representations of Africa | D. Fox Harrell, Sercan Şengün, and Danielle Olson
    • 17. Musical Passage: Sound, Text, and the Promise of the Digital Black Atlantic | Laurent Dubois, David Kirkland Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold
    • 18. What Price Freedom? The Implications and Challenges of OER for Africana Studies | Anne Rice
    • 19 On the Interpretation of Digital Caribbean Dreams | Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors

Metadata

  • rights
    Copyright 2021 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

    “Africa and the Avatar Dream: Mapping the Impacts of Videogame Representations of Africa” copyright 2021 by D. Fox Harrell, Sercan Şengün, and Danielle Olson

    The Digital Black Atlantic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
  • isbn
    978-1-4529-6532-1
  • issn
    2380-5927
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • restrictions
    Please see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
  • rights holder
    Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • series number
    6
  • series title
    Debates in the Digital Humanities
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452965321
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