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How Black Latinx communities are using digital technology to achieve visibility and social justice This volume presents examples of how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean, a topic that has been overlooked within the field of digital humanities. These case studies show that in the last few decades, Black Latinx communities have been making themselves visible and asserting long-standing claims and rights through digital tools and platforms, which have been essential for enacting discussions and creating new connections between diverse groups. Afro-Latinx Digital Connections includes both research articles and interviews with practitioners who are working to create opportunities for marginalized communities. Projects discussed in this volume range from an Afrodescendant digital archive in Argentina, blog networks in Cuba, an NGO dedicated to democratizing technology in Brazilian favelas, and the recruitment of digital media to fight racism in Peru. Contributors demonstrate that these tools need not be state of the art to be effective and that they are often most useful when employed to sustain a resilience that is deep and historically grounded. Digital connections are shown here as a means to achieve social justice and to create complex self-representations that challenge racist images of Afrodescendant peoples and monolithic conceptions of humanity. This volume expands the scope of digital humanities and challenges views of the field as a predominantly white discipline. Contributors: Sandra AbdAllah-Álvarez Adebayo Adegbembo Maya Anderson-González Eduard Arriaga Silvana Bahia Yvonne Captain Monica Carrillo Yancy Castillo Alí Majul Maria Cecilia Martino Andrés Villar A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

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""Groundbreaking. . . . The first book on the role played by digital technologies in the development of 'expanded' conceptions of Blackness in Latin America. . . . An important volume and stimulating springboard for future research.""--Bulletin of Hispanic Studies ""A much needed and important contribution to the recent growth of digital humanities studies focused on Latin America and adds to Black digital humanities by examining the work being done by Afro-Latinx communities both in the US and in Latin America.""--Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures ""Contributes to the conceptual debate about Afro-Latinx communities, registers and communicates how digital projects have been developed by people who engage in race and gender perspectives, and discusses the interaction of different perspectives in the web of Afro-Latinx connections.""--H-Net

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Eduard Arriaga, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Indianapolis, is the coauthor of Las redes del gusto: La novela en Colombia 1990–2005. Andrés Villar is a writer, artist, and independent scholar based in Ontario, Canada.

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