Black Studies 2.0: Scholarly Production, Black Empowerment, and Digital Humanities

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

Historically, Black historians sought to expand the American narrative and incorporate diverse voices and experiences. This philosophical sensibility also acts to democratize digital humanities and make it a tool that preserves and disseminates black history. However, scholars now seek to move pass these two areas and raise new questions about power, access, and the transformative possibilities of black studies within the digital realm. This panel examines the work of three scholars who merge community engagement/empowerment and scholarly production and lifts black studies to the next level.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Joy Wiley-Simone, ASALH

Individual Presentations

• Making Roots: A Digital Project on a Cultural Phenomenon - Matthew Delmont, Arizona State University

• The Draft Space: Blogging Black/Queer/Diaspora Longings from Slavery’s Archive - Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State University

• “Still Life in Digital: Trauma, Haunting, Social Media” - Marisa Parham, Amherst

• African American Studies and Digital Humanities at the Crossroads: Recovery, Dissemination and Activist Intervention as an Intentional Model - Nishani Frazier, Miami University

Commentator

• ASALH Audience, .