Histories of Power & Data

January 30, 2024

In-Class Agenda

Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36, no. 4 (137) (December 1, 2018): 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658. Read and annotate on Canvas.

Explore the following digital projects. Annotations are not required, but you should be prepared to discuss them in class:

Rankin, Bill, and Matt Daniels. “Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration.” The Pudding, January 2017. https://pudding.cool/2017/01/shape-of-slavery/.
Robert K. Nelson, Edward L. Ayers, Justin Madron, and Nathaniel Ayers, “The Forced Migration of Enslaved People,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers, https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/forcedmigration.
David Eltis et al., Slave Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, https://www.slavevoyages.org/

Bouk, Dan. “The History and Political Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts.” Osiris 32, no. 1 (September 2017): 85–106. https://doi.org/10.1086/693400.
Barrett, Alec, and TWO-N. “The Evolution of the American Census.” The Pudding, March 2020. https://pudding.cool/2020/03/census-history/.