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Black Meme
A History of the Images that Make Us
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Images of blackness have become important in our understanding of the modern world because they reflect and shape the way black people are perceived and represented. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell explores the role of these images in the construction of black identity and visual culture,...
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Black Meme
A history of Black imagery that recasts our understanding of visual culture and technology
A History of black imagery: the unexpected story of black culture.
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Images of blackness have become important in our understanding of the modern world because they reflect and shape the way black people are perceived and represented. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell explores the role of these images in the construction of black identity and visual culture, from the early days of film and photography to the digital age.
The first ever film was a black jockey riding a horse in 1887. The very first screen kiss was between two black actors in Lime Kiln Day, 1913. Black Meme also explores lynching postcards that were common in the 1920s, the image of Emmet Till's body in the casket and Trayvon's hoodie, the grainy video of Rodney King and the gloss of Michael Jackson's Thriller, Diamond Reynolds's Facebook live recording of her boyfriend's killing by the police, and Beyoncé's Formation.
Legacy Russell, the award-winning author of Glitch Feminism, explores the power of these tokens and argues that without the contributions of black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839762802
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 May 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Illustration: 8pp colour plate section
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator at The Kitchen. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020) is published by Verso Books.
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