Book Talk with Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd

Join the Alpha Omega City-wide Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated on January 21, 2025, as we host Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd for a book talk. This event is also co-sponsored with the Center for the Humanities and WashU’s Department of African & African American Studies! We will also be doing a raffle for a free and signed copy of Black Networked Resistance​: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age. There will also be an opportunity for a Q&A with the author. This is a free event, but registration is required since seats are limited! 

Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd’s book, Black Networked Resistance​: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age, explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics’ historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguing for Black publics as strategic content creators who connect resistance strategies from our past to suit our present needs, Black Networked Resistance encourages readers to create and cultivate lasting communities necessary for social and political change by imagining a future of joy, community, and agency through their digital media practices.

 

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