Study
We practice Black Study. The seminar is designed to engage the field of Black Studies while continually being mindful of the benefits and limits of the institutionalization of the field. This means we are generous in our interpretations of Black life and its study. Here, we move through art and scholarship at various frequencies in nuanced and attentive way.
Books & Journal Issues
Dear Science and Other Stories
McKittrick, Katherine.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology
Vernon, Karina, Sheila Addiscott, Ahmed Ali, André F. B., Linus T. Asong, Troy B. Bailey, Beal William S A., et al.
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020.
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Noble, Safiya Umoja.
New York: New York University Press, 2018.
“Chroma” Special Issue. Canadian Art, Fall 2020*
Lee, Yaniya and Denise Ryner, eds.
*recommended pairing: Broomer, Stu, Harvey Cowan, Ad Reinhardt, Arnold Rockman, Michael Snow, Aldo Tambellini, and Cecil Taylor. “Black.” artscanada, October 1967.
Articles & Book Chapters
“eBlack Studies: A Twenty‐First‐Century Challenge.”
“The Sankofa Principle: From the Drum to the Digital.”
“Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt: The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism—An Introduction”.
“'Technology of the Surround"
“'Sounding that Precarious Existence’: On R&B Music, Technology, AND Blackness"
“1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value.”
“Unpayable Debt: Reading Scenes of Value against the Arrow of Time.”
Ferreira da Silva, Denise.
In The Documenta 14 Reader
Edited by Quinn Latimer and Adam Szymczyk, 81-112. London: Prestel
Publishing, 2017.
“On Black Canadian Thought.” In “Black Canadian Thought”
“808s & Heartbreak”
"Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities."
“Unpayable Debt: Reading Scenes of Value against the Arrow of Time.”
Ferreira da Silva, Denise.
In The Documenta 14 Reader
Edited by Quinn Latimer and Adam Szymczyk, 81-112. London: Prestel
Publishing, 2017.
"Rethinking the Homeless Crisis: Black Spatial Visions for Los Angeles"
Dozier, Deshonay.
"“Follow the Tree Flowers”: Fugitive Mapping in Beloved"
Kelley, Elleza.
Antipode Volume 53, Issue 1
"Market Marronage: Fugitive Women and the Internal Marketing System in Jamaica, 1781–1834"
“.break .dance ---> a choreo-essay.”
“Future Movements: Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures—An Introduction.”
"A Black Studies Manifesto."
Viewing
“21 Black Futures: What Is the Future of Blackness?”
“Echoing Each Other - Films and Conversation on Black (intergenerational) Life in Europe.”
"Long Time Comin’
"Sisters in the Struggle"
Denise Ferreira da Silva - EhCho.org
"4 Waters: Deep Implicancy"
"Black to Techno"
Listening
Alex Weheliye's R & B Playlist
Dear Science Playlist
We Still Here: Hip-Hop North of the 49th Parallel Playlist
808s & Heartbreaks Playlist
Other Texts/Sites
Black Digital Research, #DigBlk
Events Page Image:
"Members of the Montreal riot squad prepare to frisk and question several of the 100 students involved in the occupation of the cafeteria and computer centre at Sir George Williams University, in Montreal, in a Feb. 11, 1969, file photo."
MONTREAL STAR VIA THE CANADIAN PRESS
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