Data is used as evidence, motivation and taken as fact.

Disclaimer: Yes, I made the decision to capitalize Black. No, I did not choose to capitalize white. This has nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with a conscious intention to acknowledge the respect Black peoples should be afforded, respect that white peoples have too long deprived them of.

The Inherent Link Between Slavery in the Past and Issues of Race in the Present

he Gate Way Arch”, “The Immigrants”, and “___________” represent those

I can’t tell you how refreshing this perspective is for those of us who came of academic age on big theory conversations about inequality. We were primed to change the world only to discover we didn’t have a seat at the table.

Inclusion is disruptive precisely because it does not level the playing field; rather, it points out how uneven that field is, and also that the game we’re playing may not be the right game at all” (224)

Collectivity, inclusivity, and community are central to Disrupting the Digital Humanities. If the author list seems too long—well, that’s kind of the point. This is a book for the digital humanities masses. Its formidable heft belies short, accessible chapters written in plain English.

constantly interrogating itself, but never at the expense of bringing non-academic, non-specialist voices into the conversation…It’s not that we need to do this work in bigger and bigger tents but that we need to move outside tents altogether. This is what I have called humongous tent digital humanities.” (86-7)

If theory was hierarchical and exclusive, the digital humanities—in its admirable moments—empowers collectivities over academic cults of personality

The star system has been and will continue to be an obstacle to such collectivity. The star system depends on fans, an impoverished community focused on individuals who are not part of the community. It would be better for literary scholars, teachers, and students to stop being fans and to recognize that they can authorize knowledge without the name of a father or mother. (“The Star System in Literary Studies” 98)

presents the field not as an avant garde school of bright stars—thank goodness!—but a gathering of ideas counter, original, spare, and strange.

“grades are the biggest and most insidious obstacle to education.”

argues that medieval studies has been “complicit in the construction of the historical and critical category of whiteness” and that medievalism “has become a fertile ground for white supremacists.”