Digital Blackface Memes: Racist Cultural Appropriation in the Twenty-First Century
Autor Mia Moody Cuvânt înainte de Dr. Andre Brocken Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 dec 2026
Mia Moody investigates the persistence and evolution of digital blackface and the commodification of Black identity in online spaces, offering insights through Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA), intersectionality, and framing theory.
Drawing on historical contexts steeped in the tradition of Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Stuart Hall, Moody examines the evolution of blackface representations from minstrel shows and children's media to TikTok trends, AI-generated personas, and political memes. The book reveals how race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect in the performance and perception of Blackness in the digital age.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798765153734
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Foreword, Andre Brock
Preface: From Minstrelsy to Memes, the Evolution of Blackface in Digital Culture
Part I. Race, Representation, and Algorithmic Bias: A Theoretical Framework
1. From Minstrelsy to Memes: Sociopolitical Climate and the Persistence of Racial Stereotypes
2. Critical Players in the Analysis of Digital Blackface and Cultural Appropriation
3. Framing Blackness on TikTok: Memes, Stereotypes, and Digital Appropriation
Part II. Performing Race in Digital Spaces: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Manifestations
4. Historical Foundations of Blackface and Modern Ideations
5. AAVE Blackface and Its Transfer from Minstrel Shows to Digital Spaces
6. Fantasy Theme Analysis of Blackface and Digital Blackface
Part III. Performing Race in Digital Spaces: Children's Media and Identity Tourism
7. Innocence and Imagery: Blackface Tropes in Children's Media
8. Identity Performance and Digital Blackfishing in Influencer Culture
9. Performing Blackness: Identity Tourism, Blackface, and Cultural Appropriation
Part IV. Cultural Capital, Image Repair, and Cancel Culture
10. Black Twitter, Identity and Meme Culture
11. Cultural Capital in Costumes and the Racial Politics of Halloween
12. Cancel Culture, and the Revival of Blackface Controversies in Celebrity Culture
13. Image Repair, Runway Racism: Blackface in Fashion and Commercial Aesthetics Analyzes
14. Political Landscape, Blackface, Image Repair, and Apologia
Part V. Intersecting Identities: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Digital Appropriation
15. Emojis and Digital Blackface: Floating Signifiers in Online Culture
16. Race, Gender, and Stereotyping Digital Content
17. Respectability Politics, Performativity, and Femme Identity
Part VI. Digital Minstrelsy: Memes, Media, and the Performance of Blackness
18. Algorithmic Appropriation: AI Personas, and the Performance of Identities
19. The Dolezal Effect: Identity Fraud and the Boundaries of Racial Performance
20. Appropriation and Resistance-Defining Cultural Borrowing in a Global Context
21. Starter Pack Memes as Cultural Mirrors and Risk of Digital Blackface
Part VII. Conclusions, Solutions, Limitations, and Future Directions
22. Digital Blackface, Critical Race Digital Literacy (CRDL), AI, and Other Implications
Appendix: Teaching Exercises and Discussion
Index
About the Author
Preface: From Minstrelsy to Memes, the Evolution of Blackface in Digital Culture
Part I. Race, Representation, and Algorithmic Bias: A Theoretical Framework
1. From Minstrelsy to Memes: Sociopolitical Climate and the Persistence of Racial Stereotypes
2. Critical Players in the Analysis of Digital Blackface and Cultural Appropriation
3. Framing Blackness on TikTok: Memes, Stereotypes, and Digital Appropriation
Part II. Performing Race in Digital Spaces: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Manifestations
4. Historical Foundations of Blackface and Modern Ideations
5. AAVE Blackface and Its Transfer from Minstrel Shows to Digital Spaces
6. Fantasy Theme Analysis of Blackface and Digital Blackface
Part III. Performing Race in Digital Spaces: Children's Media and Identity Tourism
7. Innocence and Imagery: Blackface Tropes in Children's Media
8. Identity Performance and Digital Blackfishing in Influencer Culture
9. Performing Blackness: Identity Tourism, Blackface, and Cultural Appropriation
Part IV. Cultural Capital, Image Repair, and Cancel Culture
10. Black Twitter, Identity and Meme Culture
11. Cultural Capital in Costumes and the Racial Politics of Halloween
12. Cancel Culture, and the Revival of Blackface Controversies in Celebrity Culture
13. Image Repair, Runway Racism: Blackface in Fashion and Commercial Aesthetics Analyzes
14. Political Landscape, Blackface, Image Repair, and Apologia
Part V. Intersecting Identities: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Digital Appropriation
15. Emojis and Digital Blackface: Floating Signifiers in Online Culture
16. Race, Gender, and Stereotyping Digital Content
17. Respectability Politics, Performativity, and Femme Identity
Part VI. Digital Minstrelsy: Memes, Media, and the Performance of Blackness
18. Algorithmic Appropriation: AI Personas, and the Performance of Identities
19. The Dolezal Effect: Identity Fraud and the Boundaries of Racial Performance
20. Appropriation and Resistance-Defining Cultural Borrowing in a Global Context
21. Starter Pack Memes as Cultural Mirrors and Risk of Digital Blackface
Part VII. Conclusions, Solutions, Limitations, and Future Directions
22. Digital Blackface, Critical Race Digital Literacy (CRDL), AI, and Other Implications
Appendix: Teaching Exercises and Discussion
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
Digital Blackface Memes covers the evolution of blackface from the minstrel era to memes in the digital era, including the current artificial intelligence revolution. Mia Moody's groundbreaking work will benefit students, educators, journalists, policy makers and anyone who wants to learn more about race, representation, memes and algorithms. Furthermore, this book offers practical exercises and tools to help people better understand digital appropriation and improve their digital literacy.
A very timely and vital scholarly work that unpacks digital blackface, analyzing the intersection of race, class, gender, politics, cultural appropriation, social media and AI escalation. It highlights that although often marketed as social media fun, blackface, especially via memes and appropriation, distorts the reality of black culture in very dangerous ways towards erasure. Given our digital social, political and AI generated identity landscape, in which blackface is persistent, this book significantly informs our thinking and resistance.
A very timely and vital scholarly work that unpacks digital blackface, analyzing the intersection of race, class, gender, politics, cultural appropriation, social media and AI escalation. It highlights that although often marketed as social media fun, blackface, especially via memes and appropriation, distorts the reality of black culture in very dangerous ways towards erasure. Given our digital social, political and AI generated identity landscape, in which blackface is persistent, this book significantly informs our thinking and resistance.