Black Studies and Digital Humanities: A Growing List of Online Resources

[Compiled by Kenton Rambsy & Goyland Williams]

I am interested in online mediums, blogs in particular, can be used as a space to think through ideas when preparing larger publications, getting immediate feedback, and simply giving larger audiences access to new ideas and information.  In terms of bridging the gap between “Digital Humanities” and “Black Studies,” developing an online presence is crucial. Online websites concerning black culture serve as points of entry for how wider audiences engage in scholarship about African American life and history.

Below, this list constitutes the growing “digital resources” by professors, public figures, collective groups, and institutions that can be used to discuss and study issues in Black Studies. Ranging from the personal blog of Professor Adam Banks and rhetorical matters to digital archives of HistoryMakers, the innovative means by which social networking and online mediums are used to create and shape conversations about black culture is noteworthy. 

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Individual Scholars/Public Figures Blogs

♦Talking Book Blog—Prof. Adam Banks

♦Rhetoric, Race, andReligion—Prof. Andre Johnson

♦Black Gotham Archives—Prof. Carla Peterson

♦SIUE Black Studies—Prof. Howard Rambsy II

♦Imani Perry—Prof. Imani Perry

♦Diaspora Hypertext—Prof.Jessica Marie Johnson

♦BLAC (K) ADEMIC—Prof.Kortney Ryan Ziegler

♦Thoughts of a GhettoIntellectual—Prof. Kwame Zulu Shabazz

♦Uptown Notes—Prof. L'HeureuxLewis-McCoy

♦New Black Man (In Exile)—Prof. Mark Anthony Neal

♦Something Within—Prof.Renita Weems

♦The Atlantic—Ta-NehisiCoates

Collective Group Blogs

♦The Black Bottom

♦The LiberatorMagazine

♦Racialicious

Institutional Digital Archives

♦The Digital Schomburg

♦History Makers
♦Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project
♦The Faces of Science: African Americans in Science
♦The Underground Railroad- The Journey 
♦Freedom's Journal- African American Newspapers and Periodicals
♦HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection 
♦Digital Collection of Robert W. Woodruff Library (AUC)
♦The African American Mosaic 
♦Freedmen and Southern Society Project 
♦The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages 
♦Voices of Civil Rights 
♦California Underground Railroad: Sacramento State University Library  
♦The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Paper's Project, UCLA African Studies Center
♦The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute 
♦African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: Digital Schomburg 
♦Harlem History: Columbia University  
♦An African American Jim Crow South: Charlottesville, VA
♦Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project