{"product_id":"the-digital-black-atlantic-roopika-risam-9781517910808","title":"The Digital Black Atlantic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies, offering critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Digital Black Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e 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. This transnational and interdisciplinary breadth is complemented by essays that focus on specific sites and digital humanities projects throughout the Black Atlantic. Covering key debates, \u003ci\u003e The Digital Black Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003easks theoretical and practical questions about the ways that researchers and teachers of the African diaspora negotiate digital methods to explore a broad range of cultural forms including social media, open access libraries, digital music production, and video games. The volume further highlights contributions of African diaspora studies to digital humanities, such as politics and representation, power and authorship, the ephemerality of memory, and the vestiges of colonialist ideologies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in contemporary theory and praxis, \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Black Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e puts the digital humanities into conversation with African diaspora studies in crucial ways that advance both. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Alexandrina Agloro, Arizona State U; Abdul Alkalimat; Suzan Alteri, U of Florida; Paul Barrett, U of Guelph; Sayan Bhattacharyya, Singapore U of Technology and Design; Agata Bloch, Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences; Michal Bojanowski, Kozminski U; Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City U; Anne Donlon; Laurent Dubois, Duke U; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A\u0026amp;M U; Schuyler Esprit, U of the West Indies; Demival Vasques Filho, U of Auckland, New Zealand; David Kirkland Garner; Alex Gil, Columbia U; Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College, Columbia U; D. Fox Harrell, MIT; H駘鈩e Huet, U of Florida; Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth U; Angel David Nieves, San Diego State U; Danielle Olson, MIT; Tunde Opeibi (Ope-Davies), U of Lagos, Nigeria; Jamila Moore Pewu, California State U, Fullerton; Anne Rice, Lehman College, CUNY; Sercan Şeng?, Northeastern U; Janneken Smucker, West Chester U; Laurie N.Taylor, U of Florida; Toniesha L. Taylor, Texas Southern U.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roopika Risam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517910803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517910808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Roopika Risam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994568130815,"sku":"9781517910808","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97dc5053-a71d-402b-a2ae-67c0e8b52732.jpg?v=1683330926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-digital-black-atlantic-roopika-risam-9781517910808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}