Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us

PRE-ORDER BY 6/7 for MOCAD's Book Club on August 1 *

If pre-ordering through MOCAD, you will receive your copy of Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by mid-June.

A history of Black imagery that recasts our understanding of visual culture and technology

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.

Join Associate Curator Isabella Nimmo for a discussion of Legacy Russell’s Black Meme. Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to 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.