Resurrecting the Black Body - Sutherland, Tonia

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Résumé :
Resurrecting the Black Body reminds us that the right to be forgotten is just as important as the right to be remembered, and that in all of the recent demands among and of archivists to expand representation in the historic record, we have lost focus on the right to self-determination.--Michelle Caswell, author of Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

Tonia Sutherland raises new and complex questions concerning the social and political dynamics of race and racialization tied to the Black body, requiring us to think more critically about elements of digital technology we have long celebrated.--Charlton McIlwain, author of Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Beautifully written. Sutherland approaches this text with the kind of care that the subjects of her inquiry are rarely afforded. Resurrecting the Black Body demands readers consider how digital technology provides not only a site of circulation for images of Black death but new possibilities for how we who work with and think about the archival records of Black folks consider the fullness of Black life.--Catherine Knight Steele, author of Digital Black Feminism...

Biographie:
Tonia Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Sommaire:
Tonia Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles....