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This website investigates the importance of spaces of new media and for the study of race and ethnicity in the United States. Through blogging, we underscore this connection and highlight the ways racial formation is embedded in 21st century technologies. The "Race and the Digital Blog" examines the intersection of scholarship, storytelling, and digital media. Each week, UCLA students examine course readings in conversation with a contemporary issue. 

We invite you to join the conversation. Through sharing comments with one another, we seek to create a conversation rather than a monologue. To comment, select "Comment on this Page," below. 

 

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  1. Blogging Assignment Prompt Genevieve Carpio
  2. "Native Americans and the Digital Divide" by Ebony Paramo Ebony Paramo
  3. "African American Women And Their Participation In Engineering and Technology Fields" By Alan Evangelista Alan Evangelista
  4. "Intersecting Oppressions and Online Communities" by Eduardo D. Garcia Eduardo D. Garcia
  5. About "Race and the Digital" Genevieve Carpio
  6. Race and the Digital Genevieve Carpio

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  1. Out of The Closets, Out of the Shadows, and Into the Streets: Pathways to Participation in DREAM Activist Networks Blog Presentation by Addie Vielmas
  2. "Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!" Introduction - By Ana V. H.
  3. "Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States" By Arturo Sotelo
  4. "Finding a Place in Cyberspace: Black Women, Technology, and Identity" by Ashley Martinez-Munoz
  5. "Intersecting Oppressions and Online Communities" by Eduardo D. Garcia
  6. "Beyond Margins: Intersectionality and the Digital Humanities By Kid Comet"
  7. "Cyberfeminism and Race" by Yesenia Melgoza-Fernandez
  8. "African American Women And Their Participation In Engineering and Technology Fields" By Alan Evangelista
  9. Measuring Race on the Internet: Users, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the United States by Michie Ortiz
  10. "Native Americans and the Digital Divide" by Ebony Paramo
  11. Blog Title by Joe Bruin

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