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  1. Jun 2022
    1. Far from emancipatory, this map was one of the earliest instances of the practice of redlining, a term used to describe how banks rated the risk of granting loans to potential homeowners on the basis of neighborhood demographics (specifically race and ethnicity), rather than individual creditworthiness.

      I'd never heard of the term redlining before, but it just makes so much sense as a concept. Doing this is actually very popular back home in Bulgaria, in the context of the Roma population asking for loans/credits. People are biased to believe that Roma people are scammers and too poor to be able to maintain any creditworthiness, so they deny them loans purely based on their ethnicity. I'd never really thought about it, but I think it's such a discriminatory way of determining who's "worthy" and who's not.

    1. It consists of four domains: the structural, the disciplinary, the hegemonic, and the interpersonal. .d-undefined, .lh-undefined { background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) !important; }.d-undefined, .lh-undefined { background-color: rgba(45, 46, 47, 0.5) !important; }11Her emphasis is on the intersection of gender and race, but she makes clear that other dimensions of identity (sexuality, geography, ability, etc.) also result in unjust oppression, or unearned privilege, that become apparent across the same four domains.

      This is really interesting. Last year I actually took a sociology class on gender and sexuality and we talked a lot about hegemonic masculinity, so it struck me to be seeing the word again in this text as a distinct domain of the matrix of domination. I'd never really thought about power and oppression in terms of those four domains, so it's definitely something new to consider. I also saw further down that the hegemonic domain consists of culture and the media, which says a lot about how those two have the power to determine how we see people of different identities.

    1. Digital humanities thus grows specifically out of an attempt to make “humanities computing,” which sounded as though the emphasis lay on the technology, more palatable to humanists in general. The field’s background in humanities computing typically, but far from exclusively, results in projects that focus on computing methods applicable to textual materials.

      I think this part here is really interesting, because "humanities computing" definitely sounds like there is an emphasis on technology and the need to force the humanities to "compute." While, in my opinion, when we're talking about the digital humanities there is a sense of the mere inevitability of digitalizing the humanities, however the digital aspect is something that is added to them, like a filter, transforming them into a separate, independent field. That is, the humanities don't have to do anything -- they don't have to change -- instead, a digital filter is applied to them in order to create a field that can exist by itself, if that makes sense. In any case, I think it's important to keep in mind that the humanities can be done digitally without having technology overpower the human aspect of academia.