David Theo Goldberg | Academic Influence

Why Is David Theo Goldberg Influential?

By Sara L. Austin, EdD

David Theo Goldberg is the director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute, and a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology for the University of California at Irvine. He studied economics, politics, and philosophy from the University of Cape Town before earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from the City University of New York.

His research has explored themes of race and racism, law and society, ethics, critical theory, digital humanities, critical race theory, cultural and university studies. He has written extensively on race theory, in particular, with books titled, Are We All Postracial Yet?, Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America, and Ethical Theory and Social Issues: Historical Texts and Contemporary Readings.

He is the former executive director of the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California at Irvine, where he led the Digital Media and Learning Competition. He founded the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory with colleagues Cathy Davidson and Kevin Franklin. The program worked to promote interdisciplinary partnerships between the arts, sciences and technology fields.

He also co-founded Metfilms while still in college, a film and music-video production company that went on to produce an award-winning film. He remains active in research and innovation in digital humanities.

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According to Wikipedia, David Theo Goldberg is a South African professor working in the United States, known for his work in critical race theory, the digital humanities, and the state of the university. Goldberg was born and raised in South Africa, and earned degrees in economics, politics, and philosophy from the University of Cape Town. Moving to the United States, he earned a PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York in 1985. While completing his PhD, he co-founded Metafilms, a film and music-video production company; among other things, it produced an award winning film on Robben Island and the music video for Kurtis Blow's Basketball.

David Theo Goldberg's Published Works

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Published Papers

Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1115)
The racial state (860)
Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (337)
The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (281)
The Threat of Race (240)
The Power of Tolerance (224)
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (206)
Anatomy of Racism (204)
The semantics of race (125)
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (94)
Cloning cultures: the social injustices of sameness (88)
Are We All Postracial Yet (86)
Racial comparisons, relational racisms: some thoughts on method (85)
Race critical theories : text and context (78)
A companion to racial and ethnic studies (70)
The new segregation (51)
“Stuff You Can Kick”: Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures (48)
Engaging the Humanities (42)
Modernity, Race, and Morality (41)
Call and response (40)
Racisms without Racism (38)
A companion to gender studies (38)
Between humanities and the digital (35)
Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy (33)
Liberalism's limits: Carlyle and Mill on “the negro question” (31)
The end(s) of race (27)
Between Law And Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (25)
A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age (21)
A POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF RACE (18)
' Polluting the Body Politic ' : Race and Urban Location (16)
“Killing Me Softly”: Civility/Race/Violence (16)
CALL AND RESPONSE (15)
Cyber Archaeology: A Post-virtual Perspective (14)
Racism and Rationality (13)
'POLLUTING THE BODY POLITIC': RACIST DISCOURSE AND URBAN LOCATION (12)
DEVA-STATING DISASTERS: Race in the Shadow(s) of New Orleans (11)
The Humanistiscope — Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Infrastructure (10)
The Postracial Contemporary (10)
Racial Formation in Contemporary American National Identity (10)
Science at the Crossroads: Fact or Fiction? (9)
Racial States (8)
The Tale of Two Obamas (7)
‘The Reason of Unreason’: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg in conversation about Critique of Black Reason (7)
Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Racial comparisons, relational racisms: some thoughts on method (7)
The Digital Humanities as a Laboratory (7)
Ethical Theory and Social Issues: Historical Texts and Contemporary Readings (7)
Sites of Race (6)
Neoliberalizing Race (6)
Surplus Value: The Political Economy of Prisons and Policing (6)
When Race Disappears (6)
Raking the Field of the Discourse of Racism (6)
Racial Knowledge (6)
Vanishing points: reflecting on my respondents (5)
Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities (5)
Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion (5)
Racisms in Orange: Afterword (4)
“Did You Mean ‘Why Are Women Cranky?’” Google — A Means of Inscription, a Means of De-Inscription? (4)
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil by Anthony W. Marx:Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. (4)
Field of Dreams (4)
Surplus Value: The Political Economy of Prisons (3)
Humanities in the Digital Age (3)
The Example: Some Historical Considerations (3)
Enduring Occupations (On Racial Neoliberalism) (3)
Toward a Transnational Asian/American Digital Humanities: A #transformDH Invitation (3)
Cloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities (3)
Utilitarianism and Empire (3)
Our Digital Age: Implications for Learning and its (Online) Institutions (3)
Post-Archive: The Humanities, the Archive, and the Database (3)
Linguistics and postcolonial literature: Englishes in the classroom (3)
Why Yack Needs Hack (and Vice versa): From Digital Humanities to Digital Literacy (3)
Toward Problem-Based Modeling in the Digital Humanities (3)
Tuning in to Whistle Blowing (2)
Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age (2)
Beyond Infrastructure: Re-humanizing Digital Humanities in India (2)
Circuit-Bending History: Sketches toward a Digital Schematic (2)
An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities: Envisioning Globalities 500–1500 CE (2)
Praise the Web (2)
Humanist Computing at the End of the Individual Voice and the Authoritative Text (2)
The Global Reach of Raceless States (2)
The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics (2)
A Map Is Not a Picture: How the Digital World Threatens the Validity of Printed Maps (2)
The Prison-House of Modern Law@@@The Mythology of Modern Law (2)
Deva‐Stating Discriminations, Discriminating Devastations (On Racial Americanization) (1)
Precipitating Evaporation (On Racial Europeanization) (1)
Utopian Pedagogies: Teaching from the Margins of the Digital Humanities (1)
Deprovincializing Digital Humanities (1)
Whither West? The Making of a Public Intellectual (1)
Time Wars of the Twentieth Century and the Twenty-first Century Toolkit: The History and Politics of Longue-duree Thinking as a Prelude to the Digital Analysis of the Past (1)
Spatial History as Scholarly Practice (1)
Targets of Opportunity (On Racial Palestinianization) (1)
Me? A Digital Humanist? (1)
Variation on ‘The Goldberg Variations’: Comments on Jakubowicz and Van Leeuwen (1)
Locating the Mobile and Social: A Preliminary Discussion of Camera Phones and Locative Media (1)
The Cut between Us: Digital Remix and the Expression of Self (1)
The Death of Race (1)
“Does This Technology Serve Human Purposes?” A “Necessary Conversation” with Sherry Turkle (1)
Chapter 10. Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on “The Negro Question” (1)
A Political Theology of Race (On Racial Southafricanization) (0)
Teoría del color (0)
JAC Audio Interview: David Theo Goldberg (0)
Racial Classification and Public Policy (0)
Wedded to Dixie: Dinesh D'Souza and the New Segregationism∗ (0)
Readers Respond (0)
The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice (0)
Book Reviews (0)
Response to Naomi Zack (0)
Index of Keywords (0)
INFLECTING FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES (0)
Resistance in the Materials (0)
Editorial statement (0)
1 Postracial Contemporary (0)
Medieval Materiality through the Digital Lens (0)
Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground (0)
“Stay Out of Politics”: A Philosopher Views South Africa (0)
Leah Platt Boustan, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 216. $29.96 (cloth) (0)
The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method (0)
Revealing Alchemies (On Racial Latinamericanization) (0)
Literature, Neuroscience, and Digital Humanities (0)
NOISE-SOUND-MUSIC : a research training workshop : day 2 (0)
Rites of protection: Child protection conferences as social transformation (0)
Uberizing the University (0)
Distant Mirrors and the LAMP (0)
THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES (0)
Enclosure/disclosure: writing on the wall (0)
11. Raceless States (0)
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, LEARNING, AND INFRASTRUCTURE (0)
Democracy’s History of Inegalitarianism: Symposium on Michael Hanchard, The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2018 (0)
Final Commentary: A Provocation (0)
Introduction: A Curriculum Vitae for Gender Studies (0)

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