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Rizzo, Mary. (2918). Introduction to Digital Public Humanities. American Studies and History Department. Rutgers University.

Mary Rizzo is and Associate Professor and Associate Director of Public and Digital Humanities Initiative, as well as Faculty of Global Urban Studies/Urban Systems. Their specializations include US cultural history, urban studies, public humanities and digital humanities.

Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey. Their mission includes providing instructional need to New Jersey residents, conducting innovative research, and performing public service.

The main argument is that digital technology skills such as blogging, social media, mapping, Omeka, content management, and digital archiving are important skills to explore and apply the relationship between Digital Humanities and African American Studies.

The evidence to support the main argumenta readings from Black Digital Humanities, particularly Kim Gallon, African American Studies and Digital Humanities. Topics covered include intersections, critical engagements with technology & culture, digital humanities, politics of archives, data of digital archives, curating data, visualizations, power/resistance and social media & community.

An exemplary quote is, “…critically examining digital tools like Omeka, mapping software, content management systems, and social media” (1).

The types of analysis that the text suggest for my own work is to critically engage with digital technology skills.

The text advances Black Digital Humanities, digital humanities and African American Studies.

The content of the course aims to capture relationships between digital humanities and African American studies. It explores Black Digital Humanities, drawing from Kim Gallon as the unmasking of the “racialized systems of power at work in how we understand digital humanities as a field” (1). It contributes to the theory and practice for archive ethnography by engaging with readings from digital humanities, African American studies, and cultural studies.

What is the main argument, narrative, or e/affect?The document is a syllabus for an Introduction to Black Digital Humanities course. The course introduces students to this emerging field in Digital Public Humanities, which serves to “unmask the racialized systems of power at work in how we understand the digital humanities as a field” (Rizzo citing Gallon, p. 1).