Afro-Latinx Digital Connections
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Afro-Latinx Digital Connections

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Afro-Latinx Digital Connections

About this book

How Black Latinx communities are using digital technology to achieve visibility and social justice 


This volume presents examples of how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean, a topic that has been overlooked within the field of digital humanities. These case studies show that in the last few decades, Black Latinx communities have been making themselves visible and asserting long-standing claims and rights through digital tools and platforms, which have been essential for enacting discussions and creating new connections between diverse groups.

Afro-Latinx Digital Connections includes both research articles and interviews with practitioners who are working to create opportunities for marginalized communities. Projects discussed in this volume range from an Afrodescendant digital archive in Argentina, blog networks in Cuba, an NGO dedicated to democratizing technology in Brazilian favelas, and the recruitment of digital media to fight racism in Peru. Contributors demonstrate that these tools need not be state of the art to be effective and that they are often most useful when employed to sustain a resilience that is deep and historically grounded.

Digital connections are shown here as a means to achieve social justice and to create complex self-representations that challenge racist images of Afrodescendant peoples and monolithic conceptions of humanity. This volume expands the scope of digital humanities and challenges views of the field as a predominantly white discipline.

Contributors: Sandra AbdAllah-Álvarez | Adebayo Adegbembo | Maya Anderson-González | Eduard Arriaga | Silvana Bahia | Yvonne Captain | Monica Carrillo | Yancy Castillo | Alí Majul | Maria Cecilia Martino | Andrés Villar

A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Afro-Latinx Digital Cultures Toward Complex and Diverse (Digital?) Humanities
  9. 2 Digital Autonomy and Knowledge Production by Black Brazilian Women Interview with Silvana Bahia
  10. 3 Afro-Latina Minimal Computing Interview with Sandra Abd’Allah-Álvarez Ramírez
  11. 4 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Cuban Digital Culture
  12. 5 Fighting Racism with Digital Weapons Interview with Mónica Carrillo
  13. 6 International Organization Theory and Online Afro-Latin America
  14. 7 Between Analog and Digital Activism in Afro-Colombia Interview with Yancy Castillo and Dora Inés Vivanco
  15. 8 Toward the Creation of an Afro-Argentine Digital Archive in the Cape Verdean Association of Buenos Aires
  16. 9 Borrowing Digital Tools to Connect the Periphery Interview with Alí Majul
  17. 10 Using Games to Build Connections in Africa and Beyond Interview with Adebayo Adegbembo
  18. 11 Epilogue Using Digital Tools to Build Afro-Latinx Connections and Futures
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index