The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age—and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death.   In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans—and the records that document them—from slavery through the social media age, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the right and desire to be forgotten.   From the popular image of Gordon (also known as "Whipped Peter") to photographs of the...