Intersectionality, Gender and Disability
- Rana
- Jul 3, 2019
- 2 min read

To answer how digital humanities, help marginalised groups, there are specific points that readings pointed out. First, the relationship between intersection which embodied a link between knowing and building heck and yak (Risam, 2015). It sheds light on the difference between theory and literature as theories tend to exclude specific topics that philosophers like Karl Marx were one of the scholars who wanted to include various perspectives of research in universities' sphere. These ideas were proposed by the first article which claims that intersectionality is a viable approach to cultural criticism in the digital humanities, enabling us to write alternate histories of the field that transcend simplistic "hack" vs "yack" binaries.
Thus, digital humanities try to link between the underrepresented groups that were not highlighted in the literature which symbolise the idea of cultural critique. Some topics were hidden such as race and gender; as a result, we can intervene in the false dichotomy between digital humanities and cultural analysis. For, as Bianco reminds, "We are not required to choose between the philosophical, critical, cultural, and computational; we are required to integrate and to experiment"[Bianco 2013].
Another issue with digital humanities is the way that data built through UNIX (McPherson, 2012). She addressed a two historical turning point after the world war, and she concluded that the detailed examinations into the shifting registers of race and racial visibility post-1950 do not easily lend themselves to observations about the emergence of object-oriented programming or the affordances of databases. Also, she said that two issues had been analysed in terms of media which were the representation and the access to media.
Giving some examples, the advent of postcolonial literature considers a turning point in history as it provides the colonised people with an opportunity to be represented in literature. Another example is a compelling novel that symbolises the suffer from African American people, and here we can discuss the term directed euphemism as people tend to call African American instead of negros. Also, affirmative laws could be an example.
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