Without a doubt, "Black Meme:
A History of the Images that Make Us" by Legacy Russell.
She also cites bell hooks "Is Paris Burning?" from Black Looks, but her book focuses on the virality of Black images (starting with lynching post cards) and how these images shape digital visual culture.
*** Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism ***Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our underst...
"When Jennie first came, we were at a ball, in our fantasy, and she threw papers at us. We didn't read them.. we wanted the attention. We loved being filmed.
Later, when she did the interviews, she gave us a couple hundred dollars. But she told… There would be more coming."
- Pepper LaBeija, 1993
