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Product details
- ISBN 9781839762819
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exploring imagery, memory, and technology, Black Meme shows us how visual portrayals of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world.
Legacy Russell was born and raised in New York City. She is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2022 Pompeii Commitment Digital Fellow and a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow. Russell's written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Her first book was Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). Black Meme was shortlisted for The National Book Critics Award, 2024.
