CESA2013: Race in DH - Transformative Asian/American Digital Humanities

By Anne Cong-Huyen. The following was originally posted at my personal blog.
Below is the talk I gave as part of a roundtable on race in the digital humanities at CESA2013. It really should have included "Being a Woman of Color in the digital humanities" as part of the title, but much of the presentation was a result of observations I made as the conference approached, and not what I actually wrote in the abstract. I do eventually get to the Asian Am projects toward the end. I also have to admit that this isn't really the kind of talk I'd give at a "DH" conference (you'll see why), but there is safety in a space like CESA that we cannot underestimate, and hence the confessions came out when and where they did. (Hopefully, this doesn't get a ton of people all mad at me!) More...