{"product_id":"black-meme-by-legacy-russell-9781839762819","title":"Black Meme","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRepresentations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of the modern world. In \u003cem\u003eBlack Meme\u003c\/em\u003e, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eGlitch Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e, explores the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present day. Mining both archival and contemporary media, Russell explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and death on contemporary conceptions of viral culture, borne in the age of the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese meditations include: the circulation of Lynching postcards; \u003cem\u003eJet Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e’s publication of a picture of Emmett Till in his open casket; how the televised broadcast of protesters in Selma enters the nation’s living room and changed the debate on civil rights; how a citizen-recorded video of the Rodney King beating at the hands of the LAPD became known as the “first viral video”; what the Anita Hill hearings tell us about the media’s creation of the Black icon; Tamara Lanier’s fight to reclaim the photos of her enslaved ancestors, Renty and Delia, from Harvard’s archive; the Facebook Live recording by Lavish “Diamond” Reynolds of the murder of her partner Philando Castile by the police after being stopped for a broken tail light; and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLegacy Russell explores the power of these tokens and argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67794231984364,"sku":"9781839762819","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781839762819-black-meme-1.jpg?v=1792452330","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/black-meme-by-legacy-russell-9781839762819","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}