“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation
The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.
Black Goliath: “Some Black Super Dude”
Black Goliath is a title that never got a chance to really develop and it suffers from the problems of a lot of early attempts to bring ethnic characters into the limelight.
“Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago”
Hip Hop: Unbound from the Underground
Weepin’ and Wailin’: Prince Schools ‘Em
I get a special thrill from watching Prince show them how a guitar can weep like a mourner.
“Our baby’s gone. . .” Camp and Multivocality in The Beatles’ “She’s Leaving Home.”
The weird corniness of “She’s Leaving Home” comes from its perfect ability to stand for its own artifice
The Middle Spaces 