Data and/as activism: Community-based racial justice data repertoires

Abstract

This article maps the racial justice data repertoires of 11 community- and university-based projects at the nexus of racial and data justice. To examine them, I propose a typology of these co-occurring data activism strategies. Using a qualitative content analysis of organizations’ public statements (n = 74), the typology allows me to examine the diverse, strategic nature of racial justice data repertoires. Their wide array reveals the contentious racial politics of data , or the ways data reproduces racial inequalities but can also be mobilized to contest them.

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Critical data studies data activism data justice racial justice urban data

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