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