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Description:: This dissertation explores how dominant U.S. constructions of race, class, and gender are embedded into and inscribed onto artificially intelligent virtual assistants and the labors they perform. I examine virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, interrogating their complex relationship to humanness, the tasks they are programmed...
Keyword:: haunting, media, labor, Black, domestic, and technology
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and Film studies
Creator:: Owens, Golden M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16772 and etdadmin_upload_1014053

Description:: ABSTRACT On the Other Side of Babylon: Black Women and Epistemologies of Resistance in the Third World Women’s Alliance Assata Sankofa Kokayi This cultural and intellectual history analyzes the Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA), its relationship with decolonization struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and positionality as an anti-imperialist...
Keyword:: Third World Women's Alliance, Black Radical Tradition, Black Women's History, Disrespectability Politics, Black Radical Feminism, and US-Third World
Subject:: African American studies and Women's studies
Creator:: Kokayi, Assata Sankofa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_770932 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15328

Description:: They Left Us Dead: Anti-Black Violence, Black Evidence, and The Insistence of Black Life examines the mercurial, though seemingly fixed, notion of evidence as it is brought into relation with anti-blackness, Black death and, ultimately, Black life. They Left Us Dead queries how and why certain forms of documentation and...
Keyword:: Law, Black Life, Evidence, Anti-Blackness, Black Death, and Visual Culture
Subject:: African American studies, Law, and Rhetoric
Creator:: Ward, LaCharles Travell
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14842 and etdadmin_upload_686422

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