Black Meme

A History of the Images that Make Us

AvLegacy Russell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.Russell argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. These meditations include the circulation of lynching postcards; why a mother allowed JET magazine to publish a picture of her dead son, Emmett Till; and how the televised broadcast of protesters in Selma changed the debate on civil rights. Questions of the media representation of Blackness come to the fore as Russell considers how citizen-recorded footage of the LAPD beating Rodney King became the first viral video. Why the Anita Hill hearings shed light on the media's creation of the Black icon. The ownership of Black imagery and death is considered in the story of Tamara Lanier's fight to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard. Meanwhile the live broadcast on Facebook of the murder of Philando Castile by the police after he was stopped for a broken taillight forces us to bear witness to the persistent legacy of the Black meme.Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-07
Mått:140 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781839762802

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Legacy Russell was born and raised in New York City. She is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2022 Pompeii Commitment Digital Fellow and a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow. Russell's written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Her first book was Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020).

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Black Meme makes clear we are an image based world and the foundational force shaping our understanding of this is Blackness. That acknowledgement naturally then brings forward questions of agency and authorship. Russell expertly explores and guides readers through the many quandaries therein allowing us to arrive on the other side, eyes wide and taking in the many, many sights (screens) almost as if for the first time tasked with better queries for our AI-powered-hyper-visible world but still with familiar demand: Reparations now! Free the Black meme!

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsOverture: Black Planets / Black Memes / Black Acts1. Strange Fruit, Gone Viral: The Souls of Moving Image2. Eating the Other: Emmett Till's Memory, Myth, and Black Magic3. Selma On My Mind: Protest, Media, and Viral Witness4. Sporting the Black Complaint: John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Silent Blackness, and Memetic Nationhood5. Viral Zombiism: Michael Jackson and "Thriller"6. Paris is Burning: Viral Ballrooms and Memetic Royalties7. Reality, Televised: On the Rodney King Generation8. Refusing Symbolism: Anita Hill and Magic Johnson9. "The Dancing Baby": Birth of a [Gif] Nation10. The Shadow, The Substance: Renty and Delia as Viral Daguerreotypes11. Meme Afterlives: Lavish Reynolds In Broadcast (And, Anyway, Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor)Outro in Remix: Lyric for the Black MemeAcknowledgmentsNotes