Mobilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity After “I Can’t Breathe”
In the wake of Eric Garner’s 2014 public execution at the hands of NYPD officers, online spaces such as Twitter saw an influx of remediated imagery referencing Ramsey Orta’s bystander cell phone video of Garner’s death. These images often explicitly reference the chokehold that killed Garner and/or...
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Scholar Commons
2019
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7827 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9024&context=etd |