Thread by @amplify285

This editorial project was a real pleasure to pull together, and we at @umd_AADHum hope that others enjoy these projects and reviews as much as we do! There is such a beautiful story here about the deep diversity of #digitalhumanities work committed to the study of Black life +

https://twitter.com/roopikarisam/status/1516424334700593158

As we discuss in our #ReviewsinDH editorial note, this issue is committed to highlighting the work of contemporary "thinker-makers" doing the work of Black art, Black study, Black recovery, and Black speculation— a natural extension of @umd_AADHum's operational perspective +

Black intellectual work has *always* been distributed across the arts and humanities. #BlackDH roots itself in the deeply multimodal & multivariate approaches that characterize Black thought. Digital arts, digital humanities, digital studies, digital-x can all equal Black Study +

There's more to come from @umd_AADHum x #ReviewsinDH next month, but in this issue you can see how we are featuring projects that thematically and structurally amplify some of the dominant concerns to thinking Black + digital, while moving across discursive frames to do so. +

We carefully tried to corral (not snatch!) the edges of #BlackDH— not edges like marginal, but edges like coastline, the electricity in finding new links & nodes: "data driven" installation art fr @thistimeitsmimi, a community book arts project fr Sonya Clark's @SolidarityBook +

In addition to @gdmusgrove's Black Power in D.C. mappings, our #ReviewsinDH issue also includes video essay/digital installation art fr @LegacyRussell and digital storytelling fr @NontsiMutiti. Each embeds its critique in the form of the object, embracing a complex generativity +

Of course there is much to say about what is not here (glances over at the 2k words cut fr the intro), because there is no way a single edition could get at the increasingly large network of people committed to #BlackDH. Something we'll have more to say on at another time 😉 +

Time for my ever-constant exhortation: Spend time with #BlackDH projects. Teach your students to read and use digital projs in their research.

Cite #BlackDH projects.

Integrating digital work into Black Study might take some new skills and habits, but we promise it is worth it.

Thanks to @KolaHR, @forepeacesake, @ZZcollier, @bond_zanice, & @Crutch4 for their work reviewing these projects. Thanks to the ed team at #ReviewsinDH— @jenguiliano @roopikarisam & Miranda Hughes. And shout out to my fab co-conspirators ⇢ @trevormunoz and @CollardStudies! ✨