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When utilizing digital methods to research social phenomena, such as slavery, how do we prevent re‐objectifying marginalized humans while reducing them, as a matter of course, to digital units and computational attributes? This essay proposes the meshing of an autoethnographic sensibility with digital humanities. I narrate a portion of my methodological and interpretative processes as extracted from...
After Hurricane Maria had passed, Puerto Rico found itself in the eye of a media whirlwind due to governmental scandal and earthquakes; still, bomberas (women bomba practitioners) would continue organizing. This article examines how in the wake of catastrophe, and since its inception on sugar plantations in Puerto Rico, bombeando (practicing bomba) offers individual healing and prompts the mobilization...