{"product_id":"digital-literary-redlining-african-american-anthologies-digital-humanities-and-the-canon-hardback-9781503635340","title":"Digital Literary Redlining; African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon (Hardback) 9781503635340","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDigital Literary Redlining\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrican American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy E. Earhart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503635340\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e226 pages, 5 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDigital Literary Redlining\u003c\/i\u003e, Earhart fuses African American literary studies and the digital humanities, highlighting how data-driven approaches can reshape our understanding of literary history. Earhart uncovers fresh perspectives on the processes that have influenced canon formation.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Howard Rambsy II, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia, we are, once again, at a historical moment when there is resistance to teaching texts by writers of color and texts that deal with race, ethnicity and gender. At the same time, algorithmic bias scholars are locating systemic bias encoded into systems from policing software to housing software. Bringing these divergent areas together, Amy E. Earhart examines how technological and institutional infrastructures construct and deconstruct race, ethnicity and gender identities. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on two central infrastructures, the database, a commonly used technological infrastructure in the digital humanities, and the anthology, a scholarly and pedagogical infrastructure, Earhart considers how such seemingly naturalized infrastructures impact the representation and modeling of identity. The book draws upon the building and use of \u003ci\u003eDALA\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of almost 100 years of generalist American and African American literature anthologies, constructed to investigate questions of identity and representation in literary anthologies and, by extension, the larger literary canon. The resulting examination, and its rigorous discussion of how identities are created and recreated within Black literary histories, has important implications for contemporary cultural and political debates about canon formation, literary scholarship, and the bias embedded in technological infrastructures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Canon Wars Are Not Dead:Infrastructures of Digital Literary Studies\u003cbr\u003e  2. Can a Computer Be Racist? Digital Literary Redlining and the Database \u003cbr\u003e  3. Coding the Canon: Authorship, Identity, and Gender in the Database Column\u003cbr\u003e  4. Are the Results Useful? Exploring Black Literary History with DALA \u003cbr\u003e  5. Conclusion: Carework and Black Digital Literary Studies\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 1: Further Digital Resources\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 2: Anthologies Included in The Database of African American and Predominantly White American Literature Anthologies (DALA\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610697560344,"sku":"9781503635340","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/digital-literary-redlining-african-american-anthologies-digital-humanities-and-the-canon-hardback-9781503635340","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}