Black Beyond Data - on digital and Black medical humanities

Join us in our conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, Lauren Rubin, and Alexandre (Sasha) White about their leadership of the Mellon-funded Black Beyond Data project. Johnson is a historian and digital humanist at Hopkins, Rubin is the Director of Development at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore, and White is in the departments of the history of medicine and sociology at Hopkins. Alongside their colleague Kim Gallon, these individuals lead the project in its re-evaluation of data through the digital humanities. In this episode, we talk about how data can be used by and for communities, the Black digital humanities, and how Black humanity can help to see data in a different, radical way.  

SOURCES, PROJECTS, AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 
St. Francis Neighborhood Center 
Sayeed Choudhury 
Covid Black  
Patricia Hswe 
Jeremy Greene (listen to our episode with Jeremy Greene here) 
New Generation Scholars 
The African Diaspora Alliance 
Ink Sweat and Tears 
Runaways London 
Marisa Parham  
The REPAIR Project 
Heidi Nicholls 
Samuel Kelton Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (2009) 
Jessica Marie Johnson, “4DH: + 1 Black Code / Black Femme Forms of Knowledge and Practice” (2018) 
Life x Code: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure 
Center for Black Digital Research #DigBlk, Pennsylvania State University 
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum), University of Maryland, College Park 
Gabrielle Foreman 
Jessica Marie Johnson & Kismet Nuñez, “Alter Egos and Infinite Literacies, Part III: How to Build a Real Gyrl in 3 Easy Steps” (2015) 
Black Press Research Collective 
Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021) 
Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (2020) 
Alexis Pauline Gumbs 
Sangodare Wallace  
adrienne maree brown 
Abdul Alkalimat 
Alondra Nelson 
Jennifer L. Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (2021) 
Vincent Brown, History Design Studio 
Britt Rusert 
Autumn Womack 
Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (2021) 
Stuart Hall 
Marisa Fuentes 
Christina Sharpe 
Saidiya Hartman 
Édouard Glissant 
William Kentridge 
Black Beyond Data Reading Group 
Catherine Knight Steele 
Brandeis Marshall 
Dorothy Berry 
No Boundaries Coalition 
Tony Warner, Black History Walks