Adam Banks
· ProfessorStanford University · Social and Cultural Analysis in Education
Active 2002–2022
About
Adam Banks is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and also holds a courtesy appointment in the African and African American Studies Program. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, he has previously served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky and was a member of the Writing Program at Syracuse University. Additionally, he has held positions as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kansas and as the Rocky Gooch Visiting Professor for the Bread Loaf School of English. His scholarship focuses on the intersections of writing, rhetoric, and technology issues, with specialized interests including African American rhetoric, community literacy, digital rhetorics, and digital humanities. His recent work includes the book titled Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, and he is currently engaged in a digital/book project titled Technologizing Funk/Funkin Technology: Critical Digital Literacies and the Trope of the Talking Book. Banks is committed to emphasizing the importance of community voices and perspectives in academic and educational contexts, and he believes that the people and communities brought to Stanford are as significant as those engaged with at Stanford.
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Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Social Science
- History
- Media studies
- Art
- Gender studies
- Aesthetics
Selected publications
Introduction: Thinking of a Black Digital Ethos
Social Media + Society · 2022 · 1 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Sociology
- Social Science
- Sociology
This special issue offers a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives from a network of Black scholars in sociology, technology, media studies and humanities living through economic, political, social, and technological paradigm shifts that prompt us to revisit Stuart Hall’s question, “What is this Black in Black popular culture?” in the context of Black Digital Culture. We take up the challenge to center Black technocultural production on social media platforms through an intersectional lens. Using critical approaches including Black Feminist Thought (as articulated by Patricia Hill Collins, Sylvia Wynter, bell hooks, and Kimberlé Crenshaw among others), Black Cyberfeminism (Kishonna Gray, Catherine Knight Steele, and Tressie McMillan Cottom), and Andre Brock’s Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis, we investigate how race, gender, and digital media technologies have informed and influenced Black digital culture.
2018-04-17
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book-chapterSenior author2018-04-17 · 27 citations
bookSenior authorOn African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central to the language used by African Americans to make collective cultural and political statements. Ranging across genres and disciplines, including rhetorical theory, poetry, fiction, folklore, speeches, music, film, pedagogy, and memes, Gilyard and Banks consider language developments that have occurred both inside and outside of organizations and institutions. Along with paying attention to recent events, this book incorporates discussion of important forerunners who have carried the rhetorical baton. These include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Cade Bambara, Molefi Asante, Alice Walker, and Geneva Smitherman. Written for students and professionals alike, this book is powerful and instructive regarding the long African-American quest for freedom and dignity.
College-Writing Instruction and African-American Rhetoric
2018-04-17
book-chapterSenior authorTechnology and African-American Rhetoric
2018-04-17
book-chapterSenior authorHistorical Overview of African-American Rhetoric
2018-04-17
book-chapterSenior author2018-04-17 · 1 citations
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