Notes on Black Readers & Digital Culture

This series charts the practices and perspectives of Black readers, including their engagements with literary works, social media, digital platforms, and informal reading spaces. Through observation, interviews, and short reports, we document students’ concerns, interests, interpretive habits, and the ways they navigate reading across print, screens, and social networks.

Entries by Albert Smith 

• Reading as an Escape

• Classroom Conditions in Promoting Black Men Participation

• When the Interests and Career Pressures of Black Men Intersect 

• Building Spaces for Black Men Readers 

• “People Assume I Don’t Read” 

Entries by Joyce Woodard 

• How Black Women Are Reading Now 

• Reading and Community

• Black students and online reading

Entries by Howard Rambsy II

• Documenting Black Student Reading Practices 

• Thinking structurally about Black men as readers

Related:

• A Notebook on Readers