Visual protest, viral images, and virtual participation: protest and photography in the contemporary movement for black lives / Nicole A. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Nicole A., author.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia = Anglia book series; v.85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black lives matter movement--Press coverage--United States.

Black lives matter movement.

Black lives matter movement--Social aspects--United States.

Racism--Social aspects--United States.

Racism.

Social movements--Political aspects--United States.

Social movements.

Digital media--Political aspects--United States.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston: De Gruyter, 2025.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary study sees press photographs of the BLM Movement in the US as agents for Black liberation. Close reading both the images and theoretical considerations on Blackness, photography, and the often intangible articulations of racism in today’s society, the book focuses on the work the photographs do for the movement, as they politically garner attention and create discursive places, historically unsettle seemingly fixed narratives about the African American past, and virtually establish room for digital activist debate. Based on Azoulay’s "event of photography" and Rancière’s "politics of aesthetics," it builds the theory of an attentive reading of photography and addresses the larger frameworks of photography as event in anti-racist considerations. In their political-aesthetic and performative dimensions, these photographs negotiate the current matter of Black lives in the United States and articulate ontological dimensions of Blackness as political struggle and affirmative position. They become mobile and material discursive places that lift the protested debates into wider fields of consideration and visibility, complicating notions of society, politics, and interaction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction: Black Lives Matter and the Fire in Protest

Performative Black Protest and the Discursive Place of Photography

Recursive Pasts and the Historical Presence in Photographs

Photography and the Spatial Imaginary of Protest

Coda: Social and Political Activism and the Black Photo Book

List of Figures

Works Cited

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-163665-8

9783111636658