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.
Titans Together! Superhero Sidekicks & The Anxiety of Influence
Understanding of the anxiety of influence is required in order to really understand sidekick superhero comics.
Black Lightning Always Strikes Twice! – Double-Consciousness as a Super-Power.
Jefferson Pierce’s “blackness” is explored in relation to his superheroic identity, but doesn’t get anywhere.
It’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman
More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.
