The political uses of memory

Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11268293
AutoresRachel Kuo (0000-0002-6918-8916, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, autor de correspondencia), Sarah J Jackson (0000-0001-5996-0346, University of Pennsylvania)
Año2024
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas164-186
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01634437231185963
OpenAlexW4385309621
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas28

This study investigates how activist organizations wield collective memory as they advance cross-racial solidarity on Instagram. We center digital memory-making in political work by Black and Asian activist organizations as a contribution to understanding social movement communication and online organizing. We study Instagram content from local organizations in Minneapolis (and the Midwest region), Atlanta (and the Southeast region), and national digital organizing collectives between the end of May 2020 to June 2021. This corpus of material includes the summer uprisings for Black liberation following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as well as the increased visibility of incidents of anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a mass shooting at massage parlors in Atlanta. Among our findings is the centrality of memories of internationalist feminist movements to contemporary cross-racial politics

Atlanta · Battlefield · Collective memory · Criminology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Solidarity · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies