Black Lives Matter and the Problem of Russian Racist Memes

Part eleven of the Jordan Center virtual Zoom lecture series Russian Internet Memes: The Short Course led by Eliot Borenstein, NYU Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies. Those looking for racial sensitivity and a nuanced understanding of institutional racism could find a more congenial home than the Russian Internet. Though a number of prominent Russian Internet figures have come out strongly against distortions of the Black Lives Matter movement, the past few weeks have seen a proliferation of antiBl