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Standing Together Across Time and Space: Black Social Networks in Late Nineteenth Century Tennessee | Stan Maxson
How can we theorize social networks potentially so elastic they stretch both time and place?
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Transformational Intersections
As an extension of AADHum’s 2017-2018 Conversation Series, “Transformational Intersections: Digital and Public Humanities” explores how the digital...
Making the Digital Physical: AADHum’s “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” Conference | Ravynn K. Stringfield
It was beautiful. It was wonderful. It was Black. It was digital... It was a thrill to watch...
Sharing “The Lost Boys”: Making a Marriage Between a Book and a Website | Richard Bell
Bell discusses curating a new website for the upcoming book, "The Lost Boys: A Story of Slavery and...
Toward A Deeper Understanding of Digital Humanities Research in Black Studies | Hazim Abdullah-Smith
Scholars working at the intersections of Black Studies and the digital humanities... transcend my undergraduate perceptions of interdisciplinarity.
Reimagining the Lives of Black Soldiers Wives and Widows in Post-Civil War America | Brandi C. Brimmer
How did black women occupy space in New Bern before and after the Civil War?
A (Re)Energizing Pedagogical Approach: Engaging Digital Tools to Teach African American Literature | Tyechia Thompson
Digital tools need to be integral to our methods of studying the literature...
Beyond Preservation: A Digital Intervention Into Theatre & Performance Studies | Leticia Ridley
What can digital humanities offer to Theatre and Performance Studies? ... critical approaches to African American history, gender,...
“Huddles” and Hurdles: A Feminist Scholar’s Introduction to Black DH” | Alyson Farzad-Phillips
The AADHum community has helped clarify my concerns about white feminism... by centering, recovering, and exploring Black voices...
Understanding More by Seeing More: Reflections on Digitizing the AFL-CIO Archive | Will R. Thomas
Contextualizing these records affords people to ways to make sense of them, highlighting how echoes of past conversations...
Hip Hop Archives: How Academia Preserves Rap Music’s Legacy | Kevin Winstead
How would Atlanta look if you used Black oral history in rap as a starting place?
Of the Meaning of Progress: Digital Studies as Radical Praxis | Kevin Winstead
Black DH challenges us to recognize how the work of restorative justice starts not at the finished product,...
Confronting “the Witness”: Encoding Archives of Black Lives | Jessica Lu
When we centralize blackness and black lives, it is impossible to ignore how encoding is also a critical...
Civil Rights and Worker Rights: Digitizing Labor Archives | William Thomas
Graduate Assistant William Thomas reflects on his experiences working on AADHum's digitization efforts with the Civil Rights Division...