Introduction

This project is an attempt to chart some of the ways African Americans have struggled to make real difference in a nation whose existence depends on rigorous commitments to technological advancement and exclusions based on race. African American rhetoric as read through a technological lens allows a thorough documentation of that struggle, and ways it can contribute to broader digital and rhetorical theory. It can also help us all-leaders, activists, scholars, and lay persons involved in dismantling the systemic supports for racism-reconfigure a sense of what that collective struggle might mean and how it can be taken up at such a difficult time in American history.