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The "Black body" has long been seen as a monolith, with harmful stereotypes and mythologies being projected onto individual Black bodies.Examples of such harmful images are the "strong and/or angry Black woman" and the "violent, dangerous Black brute" (p.4).Over centuries, both images have been weaponised in the service of structural racism.At the same time, these mythical images serve to commodify the Black body in the form of various visual and digital archival records, echoing the physical exploitation of enslaved Black people.In Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife, Tonia Sutherland, a scholar of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, examines the way that through digital afterlives, Black people's lives are extended, continuing the historical lack of agency, commodification, and exploitation during historical slavery.Resurrecting the Black Body offers a critical analysis of how understandings of death in the past impact understandings of death in the present, especially for marginalised populations.Throughout Resurrecting the Black Body, Sutherland uses ideas from critical race theory, performance studies, archival studies, digital culture studies, and media studies, as well as theoretical and empirical research.She situates her work in digital culture studies, which makes it a worthy basis for future scholars of science and technology studies (STS), especially those looking to further explore the intersections of race, identity, and digital technologies.While Sutherland explains that this was "the best kind of coincidence" (p.162), the title of Resurrecting the Black Body can be juxtaposed with Dorothy Robert's ( 1998) book titled Killing the Black Body in which Roberts scrutinises the systemic abuse of Black women's bodies, justified by negative images of their fertility.Sutherland uses Harvey Young's (2010) discussion of how Western societal ideas about the Black body are projected onto human Black bodies, resulting in their dehumanisation, to highlight how negative stereotypes are reified and reproduced in various forms of digital technology.Using the work of dancer-anthropologist Katherine Dunham (1941), viewing her Dunham Technique as a form of Black memory technology, Sutherland makes a brilliant connection between archival records, digital culture, and embodied movement.Discussed thematically (Records, Resurrection, Rights), the case studies in the six chapters jump across time and geographies, making a strong argument for the persistence and