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.