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Cover -- DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: For the Black Girls Who Don't Code -- 1. A History of Black Women and Technology, or Badges of Oppression and Positions of Strength -- 2. Black Feminist Technoculture, or the Virtual Beauty Shop -- 3. Principles for a Digital Black Feminism, or Blogging While Black -- 4. Digital Black Feminist Praxis, or Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing -- 5. Digital Black Feminism as a Product, or "It's Funny How Money Change a Situation" -- Conclusion: A Digital Black Feminist Future -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

For African Americans, the legacy of oral communication within the community is being transferred to online spaces. Blogging provides a platform with features that mirror many of the components of the Black barbershop. The barber and beauty shop symbolize a space of retreat, wherein African Americans have formed alternate publics used to critique the dominant culture, foster resistance, and strengthen African American institutions. Analysis of nine African American–authored blogs using a method of critical technocultural discourse analysis demonstrates that each blog used traditional Black rhetorical strategies while making modifications to contemporary goals. The strategies involve modifications made to traditional Black humor and folktales. The writing style is highly performative, yet relies upon participant interaction. This reliance on orality is a necessary force in the maintenance of cultural traditions that have long worked to assist in group definition and acts of resistance in political power struggles. By utilizing modified song, narrative, and fables to articulate resistance and craft African American identity, African American online oral culture persists as a strategy to house political discourse within the often hidden enclave spaces of the digital barbershop.

"Based on the auto-ethnographic work of a team of scholars who developed the first major Black Digital Humanities program at a research institution, this book details how to centralize Black feminist praxes of care, ethics, and Black studies in the digital humanities. In this important and timely collection, the authors Catherine Knight Steele, Jessica H. Lu, and Kevin Winstead - the first team of the African American Digital Humanities Initiative - center Black scholars, Black thought, and Black studies in creating digital research and programming. Providing insight into acquiring funding, building and maintaining community, developing curricula, and establishing a national network in the field, this book moves Black persons and Black thought from the margins to the center with a set of best practices and guiding questions for scholars, students, and practitioners developing programming, creating work agreements, building radically intentional pedagogy and establishing an ethical future for Black digital humanities. This is essential reading for researchers, students, scholars, and practitioners working in the fields of Digital Humanities and Black studies, as well as graduate students, faculty, and administrators working in humanities disciplines who are interested in forming centers, courses, and/or research programs in Black digital studies"--