Resurrecting the Black Body

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Race and the Digital Afterlife

Tonia Sutherland

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University of California Press
13 February 2024

Sociology & anthropology

The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age—and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death.

In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans—and the records that document them—from slavery through the social media age, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the right and desire to be forgotten.

From the popular image of Gordon (also known as ""Whipped Peter""), photographs of the lynching of Jesse Washington, and the video of George Floyd's murder to DNA, holograms, and posthumous communication, this book traces the commodification of Black bodies and lives across time. Through the lens of (anti-)Blackness in the United States, Sutherland interrogates the intersections of life, death, personal data, and human autonomy in the era of Google, Twitter, and Facebook, and presents a critique of digital resurrection technologies. If the Black digital afterlife is rooted in bigotry and inspires new forms of racialized aggression, Resurrecting the Black Body asks what other visions of life and remembrance are possible, illuminating the unique ways that Black cultures have fought against erasure and oblivion.

By: Tonia Sutherland
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520383869
ISBN 10: 0520383869
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tonia Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife

""In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland intricately examines Black embodiment, death and remembering, specifically the effects that inclusion and visibility within the digital archival record can have on individuals and the collective. Sutherland argues for autonomy and imagination in determining the Black digital afterlife."" * Ms. Magazine * ""Resurrecting the Black Body is a powerful read that demonstrates the need to critically examine how information systems document, represent, and memorialize human beings in life and death."" * Archivaria * ""The book offers a compelling intervention into Black digital afterlives, its concentrated scope invites reflection on how its frameworks might be adapted or expanded to address the digital experiences of other marginalized groups facing systemic injustice."" * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *