Race, Writing, and Computation: Racial Difference and the US Novel, 1880-2000

Abstract

This article seeks to bridge two scholarly fields often seen as incommensurable:cultural analytics (also known as “computational criticism”) and critical racestudies. It does so by discovering generative points of contact between two sets of methods that are also typically viewed as antithetical: data science and critique.Cultural analytics is an emerging field wherein humanist scholars leverage the in-creasing availability of large digital corpora and the affordances of new computa-tional tools.