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The Revolution Will Be Digitized: AFROCENTRICITY AND THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE

The Revolution Will Be Digitized: AFROCENTRICITY AND THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE Anna Everett Historicizing African Diasporic Consciousness African diasporic consciousness originated in the darkened abyss below the decks of European ships during the infamous middle passage of the transatlantic slave trade. Severed from the familiar terrain of their homelands and dispatched to the overcrowded bowels of slave vessels, the abducted Africans forged out of necessity a virtual community of intercultural kinship structures and new languages in which to express them. During the first half of the twentieth century, African diasporic scholaractivists W. E. B. DuBois and C. L. R. James argued that these historical Social Text 71, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. events created the preconditions for Africans in the New World to be among the first people to experience modernity. In 1969 James asserted that: The vast change in human society came from the slave trade and slavery. All the historians tell you that. . . . It was slavery that built up the bourgeois society and enabled it to make what Lévi Strauss [sic] thinks is the only fundamental change in ten thousand years of human history. The blacks not only provided the wealth in the struggle, which began http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Text Duke University Press

The Revolution Will Be Digitized: AFROCENTRICITY AND THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE

Social Text , Volume 20 (2 71) – Jun 1, 2002

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press
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0164-2472
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1527-1951
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10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-125
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Anna Everett Historicizing African Diasporic Consciousness African diasporic consciousness originated in the darkened abyss below the decks of European ships during the infamous middle passage of the transatlantic slave trade. Severed from the familiar terrain of their homelands and dispatched to the overcrowded bowels of slave vessels, the abducted Africans forged out of necessity a virtual community of intercultural kinship structures and new languages in which to express them. During the first half of the twentieth century, African diasporic scholaractivists W. E. B. DuBois and C. L. R. James argued that these historical Social Text 71, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. events created the preconditions for Africans in the New World to be among the first people to experience modernity. In 1969 James asserted that: The vast change in human society came from the slave trade and slavery. All the historians tell you that. . . . It was slavery that built up the bourgeois society and enabled it to make what Lévi Strauss [sic] thinks is the only fundamental change in ten thousand years of human history. The blacks not only provided the wealth in the struggle, which began

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