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Toward A Deeper Understanding of Digital Humanities Research in Black Studies | Hazim Abdullah-Smith
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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.

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A (Re)Energizing Pedagogical Approach: Engaging Digital Tools to Teach African American Literature | Tyechia Thompson

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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...

Answering the Call for Scholarship on Black Lives | Melissa Brown

Answering the Call for Scholarship on Black Lives | Melissa Brown

I realized that black technological ability did exist—contrary to the deficiency story told about Black people and digital...

Of Wake Work and We Who Would Build: Centralizing Blackness in Digital Work | Notes on AADHum 1

Of Wake Work and We Who Would Build: Centralizing Blackness in Digital Work | Notes on AADHum 1

Centering black experience has been my entry point for moving beyond critique to imagine new narratives and inquiry...

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