Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: The Digital Black Atlantic

Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam

Part I. Memory

1. The Sankofa Principle: From the Drum to the Digital 

Abdul Alkalimat

2. The Ephemeral Archive: Unstable Terrain in Times and Sites of Discord

Sonya Donaldson

3. An Editorial Turn: Reviving Print and Digital Editing of Black-Authored Literary Texts

Amy E. Earhart

4. Access and Empowerment: Rediscovering Moments in the Lives of African American Migrant Women

Janneken Smucker

5. Digital Queer Witnessing: Testimony, Contested Virtual Heritage, and the Apartheid Archive in Soweto, Johannesburg

Angel David Nieves

Part II. Crossings

6. Digital Ubuntu: Sharing Township Music with the World 

Alexandrina Agloro

7. Text Analysis for Thought in the Black Atlantic 

Sayan Bhattacharyya

8. Austin Clarke’s Digital Crossings 

Paul Barrett

9. Radical Collaboration to Improve Library Collections

Hélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor

10. Digital Reconnaissance: Re(Locating) Dark Spots on a Map

Jamila Moore Pewu

Part III. Relations

11. Heterotopias of Resistance: Reframing Caribbean Narratives in Digital Spaces 

Schuyler Esprit

12. Signifying Shade as We #RaceTogether Drinking Our #NewStarbucksDrink “White Privilege Americana Extra Whip”

Toniesha L. Taylor

13. Slaves, Freedmen, Mulattos, Pardos, and Indigenous Peoples: The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese Empire

Agata Błoch, Demival Vasques Filho, and Michał Bojanowski  

14. Digitizing the Humanities in an Emerging Space: An Exploratory Study of Digital Humanities Initiatives in Nigeria

Tunde Opeibi

15. Black Atlantic Networks in the Archives and the Limits of Finding Aids as Data

Anne Donlon

Part IV. Becomings

16. Africa and the Avatar Dream: Mapping the Impacts of Videogame Representations of Africa

D. Fox Harrell, Sercan Şengün, and Danielle Olson

17. Musical Passage: Sound, Text, and the Promise of the Digital Black Atlantic 

Laurent Dubois, David Kirkland Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold

18. What Price Freedom? The Implications and Challenges of OER for Africana Studies 

Anne Rice

19. On the Interpretation of Digital Caribbean Dreams

Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil

Acknowledgments

Contributors

About the Author

Roopika Risam is associate professor of secondary and higher education and English at Salem State University. She is author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy.

Kelly Baker Josephs is professor of English and digital humanities at York College/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center.