Race and the Digital: Racial Formation and 21st Century Technologies

Individual vs the group

You made a good point of “retro-humanism” not being defined, in fact multiple terms that I was unfamiliar with were not defined which hindered the article’s message for me. Anyway, I think as the prefix suggests “retro” it may be the “old-fashioned” humanities before any digital technology/advancements surfaced within our society. Within Risam’s article she gave brief history on what it was like within the 60s-80s when scholars were introduced to the idea of theory and the rise of digital humanities. I think all fields within today’s society are diverse, but there is a controversy of if the different fields not being diverse enough. We see different races, genders, and ethnicities within each field, but we are in shock when statistics come out and we see that there is such a low percentage of colored (women) within a field. I believe we are made to think that fields are never diverse enough unless the demographics are all on an equal spectrum. This may be a far stretch or perhaps I am applying the term wrong, but I think that I am a part of a group of intersectionality at UCLA. We can all say the campus is diverse, as many other universities, and due to this we are allowed to view the differences and similarities all among us yet we are all a part of the same educational institution. It may be more difficult for an individual to get recognized for their differences compared to a group, but it is possibly. For example, such as in our class where there is only about 10 of us.

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