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[Commlist] New book: Digital Black Feminism

Thu Oct 14 10:00:52 GMT 2021





We would like to announce a new publication from New York University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Digital Black Feminism***

*Catherine Knight Steele***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479808380/digital-black-feminism/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479808380/digital-black-feminism/>_*

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*Available in print and digital formats*

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*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30^th June 2022. Discount only applies to the CAP website.

*Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought*

Black women are at the forefront of some of this century’s most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women’s relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly “listen to Black women,” Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, /Digital Black Feminism/walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and economic necessity—both on and offline.

Positioning Black women at the center of our discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Steele offers a through-line from the writing of early twentieth-century Black women to the bloggers and social media mavens of the twenty-first century. She makes connections among the letters, news articles, and essays of Black feminist writers of the past and a digital archive of blog posts, tweets, and Instagram stories of some of the most well-known Black feminist writers of our time. Linking narratives and existing literature about Black women’s technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, /Digital Black Feminism/traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation. As the work of Black feminist writers now reaches its widest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution on the implications of Black feminism becoming a digital product.

*Catherine Knight Steele*is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, with affiliate appointments in the American Studies department, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.


*New York University Press | Critical Cultural Communication | October 2021 | 208pp | 9781479808380 | PB | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.

*The ebook version of this title available through all major digital vendors and retailers. If you wish to purchase this title for your library then please contact your library supplier. For more information on ebook purchasing please follow this link - **https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ebooks/*

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