In disciplines ranging from philosophy to computer science, the term “black box” describes a system that cannot be understood internally, by how it works, but only externally, in terms of its inputs ...
Daylanne English
Daylanne English is Professor of English at Macalester College. She is the author of Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature (2013) and Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (2004). She is currently at work on a digital humanities project on Afrofuturism. 