Conspi(racism): Subversive Ideas in Black American Art & Media is a study of the art and media-based expressions of conspiracy theories within Black counterpublics. This project analyzes the culturally specific logics of conspiracy theorizing among Black Americans, ultimately disrupting the dominant pathologizing paradigm traditionally used to study conspiracy theories. Each chapter utilizes multimodal critical discourse analysis to analyzes a specific conspiracy theory discourse that has been popular amongst Black Americans, and a cultural form in which the discourse was particularly prevalent. In doing so, this work attends not only to the conspiracy theories themselves, but also to the affective, intuitive, imaginative, and otherwise alternatively expressive affordances of the cultural forms in which they are communicated. To begin, chapter one studies how Black folks theorized the conspiratorial inception of the crack epidemic in 1980s and 1990s hip-hop music. The second chapter examines the theory that legalized abortion was secretly a conspiracy to commit Black genocide via an analysis of 1970s Ebony and Jet magazines. Finally, chapter three examines Black Americans’ conspiracy theories about levees being exploded during Hurricane Katrina on documentary film. In its totality, Conspi(racism) is a study of subversive discursive practices amongst Black people and how Black cultural production has facilitated the proliferation of subversive ideas.