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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Race identity [Browse]
• African American arts [Browse]
• African Americans—Intellectual life [Browse]
• Popular culture—United States [Browse]
• Social media and society—United States [Browse]

Series

• New Black studies series [More in this series]
• The new Black studies series

Summary note

"Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of its rapid and ubiquitous circulation through popular media. Gabriel A. Peoples examines Black people and representations of Black people that have gone viral from the eighteenth century to today. Peoples's analysis ranges from abolitionist and proslavery visual culture to Do the Right Thing to "Bed Intruder Song" and the cellphone video of Derrion Albert's murder. After identifying these moments, he considers how performances go viral in Black ways. He also thinks through the ways Black virality circulates ideas that materially affect Black life. As he shows, an interacting person's vulnerability to racialized gender and racialized sexuality knowledge inspires how they spread a performance. Non-iconic elements of viral moments reveal hard-to-find nuances of Black life while the artists and others represented in viral moments promote both collective and individual liberation by harnessing their visibility and audibility. Rigorous and expansive, Goin' Viral uses Black virality as a new way to understand and frame Black performances"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other title(s)

Going viral

ISBN

• 9780252046643 (hardcover)
• 0252046641 (hardcover)
• 9780252088742 (paperback)
• 0252088743 (paperback)

LCCN

2025008156

OCLC

1472584246

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