Join us in our conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, Lauren Rubin, and Alexandre (Sasha) White about their leadership of the Mellon-funded Black Beyond Data project. Johnson is a historian and digital humanist at Hopkins, Rubin is the Director of Development at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore, and White is in the departments of the history of medicine and sociology at Hopkins. Alongside their colleague Kim Gallon, these individuals lead the project in its re-evaluation of data through the digital humanities. In this episode, we talk about how data can be used by and for communities, the Black digital humanities, and how Black humanity can help to see data in a different, radical way.  

SOURCES, PROJECTS, AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

St. Francis Neighborhood Center 

Sayeed Choudhury 

Covid Black  

Patricia Hswe 

Jeremy Greene (listen to our episode with Jeremy Greene here) 

New Generation Scholars 

The African Diaspora Alliance 

Ink Sweat and Tears 

Runaways London 

Marisa Parham  

The REPAIR Project 

Heidi Nicholls 

Samuel Kelton Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (2009) 

Jessica Marie Johnson, “4DH: + 1 Black Code / Black Femme Forms of Knowledge and Practice” (2018) 

Life x Code: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure 

Center for Black Digital Research #DigBlk, Pennsylvania State University 

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum), University of Maryland, College Park 

Gabrielle Foreman 

Jessica Marie Johnson & Kismet Nuñez, “Alter Egos and Infinite Literacies, Part III: How to Build a Real Gyrl in 3 Easy Steps” (2015) 

Black Press Research Collective 

Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021) 

Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (2020) 

Alexis Pauline Gumbs 

Sangodare Wallace  

adrienne maree brown 

Abdul Alkalimat 

Alondra Nelson 

Jennifer L. Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (2021) 

Vincent Brown, History Design Studio 

Britt Rusert 

Autumn Womack 

Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (2021) 

Stuart Hall 

Marisa Fuentes 

Christina Sharpe 

Saidiya Hartman 

Édouard Glissant 

William Kentridge 

Black Beyond Data Reading Group 

Catherine Knight Steele 

Brandeis Marshall 

Dorothy Berry 

No Boundaries Coalition 

Tony Warner, Black History Walks