Black meme : a history of the images that make us / Legacy Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Legacy, author.

Contributor:

Verso (Firm : London, England), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Philosophy.

Black people.

Visual sociology.

Black people in mass media.

Black people and mass media--United States--History.

Black people and mass media.

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2024.

Summary:

"Explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Overture : Black planets/Black memes/Black acts

Strange fruit, gone viral : the souls of moving image

Eating the other : Emmett Till's memory, myth, and Black magic

Selma on my mind : protest, media, and viral witness

Sporting the Black complaint : John Carlos and Tommie Smith, silent Blackness, and memetic nationhood

Viral zombiism : Michael Jackson and "Thriller"

Paris is burning : viral ballrooms and memetic royalties

Reality, televised : on the Rodney King generation

Refusing symbolism : Anita Hill and Magic Johnson

"The dancing baby" : birth of a [GIF] nation

The shadow, the substance : Renty and Delia as viral daguerreotypes

Meme afterlives : Lavish Reynolds in broadcast (and, anyway, arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor)

Outro in remix : lyric for the Black meme.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Russell, Legacy. Black meme.

ISBN:

9781839762802

1839762802

OCLC:

1419797338