Review of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock, Jr. (New York University Press)

Cover of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock, Jr. (New York University Press)

In Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, interdisciplinary scholar André Brock, Jr. offers a timely and powerful examination of Blackness in the digital age. The book centers Black technology use from Black perspectives and investigates the online distribution of Black discourses. In six exploratory chapters, Brock reconceptualizes Black technoculture in a way that corrects deficit models of Black digital practice.