| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Brief history of the black comic strip : past and present / Sheena C. Howard -- The trouble with romance in Jackie Ormes's comics / Nancy Goldstein -- Contemporary representations of black females in newspaper comic strips / Tia C.M. Tyree -- Black comics and social media economics : new media, new production models / Derek Lackaff and Michael Sales -- Beyond b & w? : the global manga of Felipe Smith / Casey Brienza -- Studying black comic strips : popular art and discourses of race / Angela M. Nelson -- Blowing flames into the souls of black folk : Ollie Harrington and his bombs from Berlin to Harlem / Christian Davenport -- Panthers and vixens : Black superheroines, sexuality, and stereotypes in contemporary comic books / Jeffrey A. Brown -- Gender, race, and The Boondocks / Sheena C. Howard -- From sexual siren to race traitor : Condoleezza Rice in political cartoons / Casey Brienza Clariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Elena Reyes Garcia -- "There's a Revolutionary Messiah in Our Mist" : a pentadic analysis of Birth of a Nation : a comic novel / Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson II -- Inappropriate political content : serialized comic strips at the intersection of visual rhetoric and the rhetoric of humor / Elizabeth Sills -- "Will the 'real' Black superheroes please stand up?!" : a critical analysis of the mythological and cultural significance of black superheroes / Kenneth Ghee -- Culturally gatekeeping the black comic strip / David Deluliis |
| Summary |
"Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work. Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience, gender identity, politics and social media. Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation introduces students to such key texts as: The work of Jackie Ormes Black women superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States
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Black people in comics.
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Superheroes, Black, in comics.
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African American superheroes.
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African American cartoonists.
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African Americans in popular culture.
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Race in comics.
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Superheroes, Black, in comics
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Race in comics
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
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Black people in comics
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African Americans in popular culture
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African American superheroes
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African American cartoonists
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Comics criticism
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Comics criticism.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Howard, Sheena C., editor.
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Jackson, Ronald L., 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781441168474 |
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1441168478 |
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9781441138491 |
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1441138498 |
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1472543424 |
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9781472543424 |
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1299263283 |
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9781299263284 |
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