cfp the digital black atlantic @smallaxe

small axe has a CFP for The Digital Black Atlantic, edited by Roopika Risam & Kelly Baker Josephs, published by the University of Minnesota Press, part of their Debates in the Digital Humanities Series.

"We position this volume on the “Digital Black Atlantic” as a transnational one that centers both digital humanities approaches to the African diaspora and African diasporic approaches to digital humanities. The geographic sweep of the volume is wide, including scholarship on African American, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, and Black British culture; scholarship examining digital humanities from countries in Africa and the Caribbean; and transnational approaches that embrace the affordances of digital humanities to negotiate the challenges of understanding race, migration, mobility, blackness, and more in transnational contexts. We are seeking scholarship that blends theory and method while shedding light on the current debates driving this scholarship...."

The deadline for 500-word abstracts is 1 April 2017.

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