Power Hierarchies & Histories of Data ⚡

Class Activities

• Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads” (now available on Canvas under Week 3 and in Google Drive folder readings available here) and listen to interview with the author https://ahrinterview.libsyn.com/jessica-marie-johnson-on-the-history-of-atlantic-slavery-and-the-digital-humanities
• Lauren Klein and Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Feminism; Chapter 1, Power Chapter https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/vi8obxh7/release/4
• View images of Mimi Onuoha’s exhibit “The Library of Missing Datasets” and explore her Github repository “On Missing Datasets” Moved both of these to the following week
• Explore Slave Voyages https://www.slavevoyages.org/ Elits, David. “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Origins, Development, Content.” Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 2, no. 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.25971/R9H6-QX59.
• Explore “The Shape of Slavery” Bill Rankin and Matt Daniels The Pudding https://pudding.cool/2017/01/shape-of-slavery/

Additional Materials

• Maris Elena Duarte and Miranda Belarde-Lewis. “Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (July 4, 2015): 677–702 Benjamin Schmidt “Two Volumes: the lessons of Time on the Cross” http://benschmidt.org/post/2019-12-05-totc/2019-aha/