[Commlist] New book: Digital Black Feminism

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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*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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