Abstract
Digital technology facilitates networking together African American community cultural heritage information held by multiple institutions and individuals. This article presents a case study on how African American Studies can participate collaboratively in operationalizing this potentiality. In Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, institutions such as churches, schools, businesses, libraries, museums, archives, and private homes all contain documentation and records of local experiences. Documentation includes everything from oral histories of local elders to master's theses on community evolution. Digital inequalities and the commercialization of cyberspace shape how new possibilities develop. Struggles to achieve digital literacy intersect with the political economy of information. This case study presents an intervention into this reality by using the eBlack Studies framework to demonstrate how campus and community can come together to develop digital community archives. In networking together local African Ame...
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