Spring 2017 Reading Group
The Spring 2017 Reading Group series provided a space for critical dialogue and exploration for African Americanists engaged in thinking about their work in terms of the digital. Complementing AADHum’s Digital Humanities Incubator, the reading group equipped scholars with a conceptual toolkit to fortify their scholarly, pedagogical, and social justice commitments.
For the Race, Space, and Place series, we drew on a robust syllabus that centers black experience and probes the ethical, empirical, and epistemological considerations of working at the crossroads of digital studies and African American history and culture.
Though the Spring 2017 reading group series has concluded, you can still explore our syllabus, which was organized into six reading group sessions:
All Spring 2017 reading group materials have been archived. To access them, please visit our course website.
Theorizing “The Archive”
Wednesday, March 29
Theorizing “The Archive” explores one of the fundamental tools of black digital scholarship—the archive. We examine how the authority, reliability and completeness of the archive can be challenged when scholars engage with sources in traditional, unorthodox and unanticipated ways.
Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory
Wednesday, April 26
Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory situates black digital scholarship within two of the most prominent frameworks for understanding African American history and culture, in conversation with pioneers in these fields, Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill and Dr. Patricia Hill Collins. Part of The Critical Race Initiative’s Parren Mitchell Symposium.
A Room of Our Own: Trials and Triumphs of Generating Theory
Wednesday, May 3
Trials and Triumphs of Generating Theory reflects on how scholars can use their newly acquired conceptual and empirical approaches to cultivate and refine their theoretical sensibilities and empirical orientation to digital blackness.