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Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation

by Sheena C. Howard (Editor)

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    Illustrated 2013

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Synopsis

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

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09 May 2013
ISBN 10: 1441135286
ISBN 13: 9781441135285
Book Overview: From superhero comics to satirical cartoons, this book surveys the work of Black comic artists from the early twentieth-century to today.

Media Reviews
Overall, Black Comics is an extremely well rounded and impressive work of scholarship. Though this book spans a wide breadth of critical perspectives on various Black comic creators, its critical inquiry is focused and sustained. ... Black Comics is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship. -- Francesca Lyn * ImageTexT *
Author Bio
Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA. Ronald L. Jackson II is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and Past Editor of the academic journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. His many previous publications include Scripting the Black Masculine Body and Interpreting Tyler Perry