Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part two)
When Black Lightning rejects the Justice League he is rejecting white supremacy.
Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part one)
The clumsy way superhero comic books of the post-Civil Rights 1970s explicitly address race can provide a site for imagining productive racial consciousness for black characters, while also highlighting the limits of that kind of resistant reading.
The Queer Silence of The Killing Joke
The intimacy between Batman and the Joker calls for imagining a different “last Batman story.”
Bumbling: DC Super Hero Girls and the White Racial Imagination
This Girl Power(!) needs to be a little more intersectional in its thinking.
Batman vs. Superman: Whatever Happened to Growing Up?
Putting the “final” Superman and Batman stories in conversation.
Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body
Could Cyborg be the comic book superhero representation of white supremacy’s effect on the black body? To have a black person transformed from a metaphorical machine to an actual one?
OMG! OMAC 4 PREZ: Future-Past-Prolepsis
An examination of a vision of a future from the past is not about its predictive powers, but what that vision tells us about the fears of that era.
