During the development of jazz in the 1920s, specifically in Chicago, racial tension
between whites and African Americans began to escalate. Racial conflicts
between whites and African Americans rapidly grew in both the south and north
igniting riots and solidarity between blacks and supporters. Attracted
to Chicago’s economic opportunities, and the image of the “Promised
Land,” southern African Americans migrated to Chicago. African Americans, primarily
located on the South Side of Chicago, were separated from white neighborhoods.
The geographical divide between African Americans and whites induced economic
and social divides between African Americans and whites. African Americans
encountered housing shortages, high rents, and limited job opportunities. This
dichotomy amongst African American and whites socially, economically, and
demographically acted as a catalyst- quickly increasing racial tension. African
Americans were treated as inferior and were frequently discriminated against.
However, the emergence of jazz elevated the status of African Americans.   

       Jazz caught the attention of various people from all different social and economic backgrounds.
In the late 1930s, the Ku Klux Clan, infuriated with fair wages for Africana
Americans and the popularity of jazz with whites, decided to go on a nationwide
campaign to "Americanize Americans”(Jazz exacerbates racial tensions). The campaign increased racial tension
and diffused the divide between African Americans and whites. Nonetheless, the
Ku Klux Clan’s attempt to stifle the expansion of jazz failed. Jazz continued
to transform American culture, forcing people into a new set of cultural changes.
Turning jazz into a national culture. Jazz, in Chicago,
played a major role in diffusing the racial tension between African Americans
and whites.

      Focusing on race in a broader sense, race in Digital Humanities has raised one major concern. Digital
Humanities is the study and practice of using technology to
help develop digital techniques, tools, and methods to make History, Literature,
Music, Philosophy, Sociology, Performing Arts and other traditional humanities
disciplines easily accessible. This incorporates not just text analysis, but
visual imaging and design. Digital humanities is still in its early stages of
development. However, one thing that has recently become transparent is the
lack of diversity and perspective in Digital humanities. Many supporters of
digital humanities believed that the Internet would allow those
who had been silenced to have a voice. “We imagined
that the free access to materials on the web would allow those previously cut
off from intellectual capital to gain materials and knowledge that might be
leveraged to change the social position of people of color.”(Amy E. Earhart,
2012). Unfortunately, we have not escaped the traditional canon by turning to
new methods of publication. Furthermore, the same narrow perspective that has
been perpetuated throughout textbooks and other forms of media continue to be
perpetuated in Digital humanities. The limited perspective is due to the
exclusionary world of digital humanities.