“El Negro de WhatsApp” is a platform-specific meme particularly popular amongst Spaniards and Latin-American WhatsApp users. The challenges of private, encrypted services for the normalization of racism Popular culture, the commodification of Black bodies, and digital blackface The article concludes outlining the challenges of private, encrypted services if we are to dismantle ‘platformed racism’. Second, I argue that encrypted services like WhatsApp facilitate and amplify what Picca and Feagin (2007) refer to as the “backstage” of racism. As a first step, the paper links “El Negro de WhatsApp” meme with the long racist tradition of commodifying Black bodies in American popular culture and beyond. Through the examination of a popular WhatsApp meme in Spain, I show how everyday socio-technical practices on this platform perpetuate power hierarchies based on race. This paper explores how structural racism encodes itself into social media. These include 3 multi-investigator groups that operate principally in the TB/HIV space, 2 extramural research units of the South African Medical Research Council and a number of other research entities, 6 Research Chairs awarded under the National Research Foundation's South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), and further areas of research foci led by individual Members.Īs a collective, the research groups include over 440 research officers and laboratory, clinical, field site and administrative support staff, 280 Masters and PhD students registered in any year, and 60 or more Postdoctoral Fellows.'El Negro de WhatsApp' meme, digital blackface, and racism on social media Overall, there are more than 30 research groups. IDM Fellows are hosted in Member groups. The Members may also collaborate with Affiliate or Adjunct Members. Research in the IDM is led by the Full and Associate Members, either working independently with their own research groups or in larger groups led by more than one Member. The Institute comprises 35 Full and 11 Associate Members, with 10 IDM Fellows, 13 Affiliate Members from departments within the University of Cape Town, and 12 Adjunct Members based nationally or internationally.
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