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The Hidden Fortress: No Ivy League and Legacies of Whiteness

Interrogating the complex legacies of racial injustice in Hazel Newlevant’s No Ivy League and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.

19 November 2019 in Books, Independent Comics, Race.

Your Favorite Superhero Sucks (Review)

A voice in the wilderness crying out against superheroic hegemony.

27 September 2016 in Books, Comic Studies, Review.

Robert Mayer’s Superfolks: Grist For The Mill

A resource that better writers can mine to develop something more sophisticated.

26 November 2013 in Books, Comics, Review, Urban Space.

“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation

The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.

29 April 2013 in Books, Marvel Comics, Race.

Succeeding in the Super-Biz

Imagining a different tradition for super-heroines.

1 February 2013 in Books, Comics, Gender, Race.

On Fear of Music

Frank Zappa may have said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but fuck Frank Zappa

11 December 2012 in Albums, Books, Music, Review.

It’s Superman!

An obscure book worth tracking down.

15 June 2012 in Books, Review.
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