Race and Feminism in Digital Spaces

Books

• Atanasoski, N. & K. Vora. (2019). Surrogate humanity: Race, robots, and the politics of technological futures. Duke University Press.
• Bailey, M. (2021). Misogynoir transformed: Black women’s digital resistance. NYU Press.
• Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code. Polity. 
• Brock, A., Jr. (2020). Distributed Blackness: African American cybercultures. NYU Press.
• Gebru, T. (2020) Race and gender. In M. Dubber, F. Pasquale, & S. Das, (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of ethics of AI (pp. 253–270). Oxford University Press.
• Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2020). #HashtagActivism. MIT Press. 
• Jones F. (2019). Reclaiming our space: How Black feminists are changing the world from the tweets to the streets. Beacon Press.
• Liston, M. I. (2017). Black Twitter and Black feminist epistemology. In Nicosia L. M., Goldstein R. A. (Eds.), Through a distorted lens: Media as curricula and pedagogy in the 21st century (pp. 71–80). Sense Publishers.
• Noble, S. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. NYU Press.
• Rambukkana, N. (2015). From #RaceFail to #Ferguson: The digital intimacies of race-activist hashtag publics. In N. Rambukkana (Ed.), Hashtag publics and the power of political discursive networks (pp. 29–48). Peter Lang.

Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed

• Alinejad, D. (2023). Race and affect in digital media cultures. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1269
• Bailey, M, & Trudy. (2018). On misogynoir: Citation, erasure, and plagiarism. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), 762–768. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1447395
• Borah, P., Ghosh, S., Suk, J., Mini, D. S., & Sun, L. (2023). Feminism not for all? The discourse around white feminism across five social media platforms. Social Media + Society, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231186862
• Bonilla, Y., & Rosa, J. (2015). #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist, 42(1), 4-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12112
• Brown, M., Ray, R., Summers, E., & Fraistat, N. (2017). #Sayhername: A case study of intersectional social media activism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(11), 1831–1846. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1334934
• Conley, T. L. (2017). Decoding Black feminist hashtags as becoming. The Black Scholar, 47(3), 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2017.1330107
• Glitch UK. (2023). The digital misogynoir report: Ending the dehumanising of Black women on social media. https://glitchcharity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Glitch-Misogynoir-Report_Final_18Jul_v5_Single-Pages.pdf
• Graham, R., & Smith, S. (2016). The content of our #characters: Black Twitter as counterpublic. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2(4), 433–449. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649216639067
• Hampton, L. M. (2021, March 9). Black feminist musings on algorithmic oppression. In W. Isaac, M. C. Elish, & R. Zemel (Chairs), Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21). Virtual Event. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445929
• Kuo, R. (2016). Racial justice activist hashtags: Counterpublics and discourse circulation. New Media and Society, 20(2), 495–514. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816663485
• Loza, S. (2014). Hashtag feminism, #Solidarityisforwhitewomen, and the other #Femfuture. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology (5), 1–29. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/26991
• Muhammad, E. D. (2014). Race in digital space: Conceptualizing the Media Project. Art Journal, 60(3), 92-95. https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/publications/race-digital-space-conceptualizing-media-project-2014
• Peterson-Salahuddin, C. (2022). Posting back: Exploring platformed Black feminist communities on Twitter and Instagram. Social Media + Society, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211069051
• Phan, T. N. (2019). Amazon Echo and the aesthetics of whiteness. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5(1), 1–39. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v5i1.29586
• Sobande, F. (2023). The digital nesting of Black feminism. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 30(4), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231206213
• Walcott. R. (2023). A tweet at the table: Black British identity expression on social media [Doctoral Thesis, King’s College London]. King’s College London Research Portal. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/studentTheses/a-tweet-at-the-table
• Williams, A., & Gonlin, V. (2017). I got all my sisters with me (on Black Twitter): Second screening of How to Get Away with Murder as a discourse on Black womanhood. Information, Communication & Society, 20(7), 984–1004. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1303077
• Williams, S. (2015). Digital defense: Black feminists resist violence with hashtag activism. Feminist Media Studies, 15(2), 341–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1008744

Popular Press

• Carr, E. (2022, March 2). Black digital spaces are a vital transformative tool. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/earlcarr/2022/03/02/black-digital-spaces-are-a-vital-transformative-tool/?sh=1eeeab571ea5
• Driscoll, M. (2020, September 21). Art, race, and the internet: Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Black.Net.Art Actions. Smarthistory. https://smarthistory.org/art-race-internet-mendi-keith-obadike-black-net-art-actions/.
• Pruitt-Young, S. (2021, July 1). Black TikTok creators are on strike to protest a lack of credit for their work. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011899328/black-tiktok-creators-are-on-strike-to-protest-a-lack-of-credit-for-their-work
• Talking race in the Digital Sphere– is “new activism” here to stay? (n.d.). United Nations. https://www.un.org/en/academic-impact/talking-race-digital-sphere%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Cnew-activism%E2%80%9D-here-stay