Poor Meme, Rich Meme — Real Life

If memes reiterate the inequities between black creators and white appropriators, can they also move us into a new collective blackness?

Poor Meme, Rich Meme If memes reiterate the inequities between black creators and white appropriators, can they also move us into a new collective blackness? Aria Dean July 25, 2016 share Image: "1897.1987.8917" by Christine Ayo . “There is no other meaning than the meaning of circulation” — Jean-Luc Nancy Black people love social media, and social media love black people. According to a 2015 Pew survey , nearly half of black internet users use Instagram, as opposed to less than a quarter of white users. Twitter is more evenly distributed but still mostly minority-driven. Alongside the rise of

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