Black comics : politics of race and representation
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Black comics : politics of race and representation
Bloomsbury, 2013
- : pb
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
Foreword, William Foster III
Introduction, Sheena Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II
Part I: Comics Then & Now
1. Brief History of The Black Comic Strip: Past and Present, Sheena C. Howard
2. The Trouble With Romance in Jackie Ormes's Comics, Nancy Goldstein
3. Contemporary Representations of Black Females in Newspaper Comic Strips, Tia C. M. Tyree
4. Black Comics and Social Media, Derek Lackaff and Michael Sales
5. Beyond B&W? The Global Manga of Felipe Smith, Casey Brienza
Part II: Representing Race & Gender
6. Studying Black Comic Strips: Popular Culture, African American Repertoire, and Discourses of Race, Angela M. Nelson
7. Blowing Flames into the Souls of Black Folk: Ollie Harrington and his Bombs from Berlin to Harlem, Christian Davenport
8. Panthers and Vixens: Black Superheroines and Sexuality in Contemporary Comic Books, Jeffrey A. Brown
9. Gender, Race and The Boondocks, Sheena C. Howard
10. From Sexual Siren to Race Traitor: Condoleeza Rice in Political Cartoons, Clariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Reyes Garcia
Part III: Comics as Political Commentary
11. "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
12. Inappropriate Political Content: Serialized Comic Strips at the Intersection of Visual Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Humor, Elizabeth Sills
13. Will the "Real" Black Super Heroes Please Stand Up?!, Kenneth Ghee
14. Culturally Gatekeeping the Black Comic Strip, David DeIuliis
Afterword, Jeet Heer
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"