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The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
Frances Gateward (Ed.)
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Description for The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
Hardback. .
Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Winner of the 2016 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, ... Read more
Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Winner of the 2016 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813572345
SKU
V9780813572345
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Ref
99-1
About Frances Gateward (Ed.)
FRANCES GATEWARD is an associate professor in the department of cinema and television arts at California State University-Northridge. She is the editor of Seoul Searching: Cultural Identity and Cinema in South Korea. JOHN JENNINGS is a professor of media and cultural studies, University of California Riverside where he is Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow. He is the author of Black Comix: African ... Read more
Reviews for The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
"A fascinating look at the growing complexity and diversity in representations of Blackness in comics, graphic novels and sequential art."
Bambi Haggins
author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
"Like the comics selected for analysis, this collection of essays works to expand our understanding of the mediums of Blackness and comics. Through observant ... Read more
Bambi Haggins
author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
"Like the comics selected for analysis, this collection of essays works to expand our understanding of the mediums of Blackness and comics. Through observant ... Read more