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Race

The Captain Black America Needs

Leveraging Marvel’s underwhelming Civil War II to think about Black lives in the Marvel Universe.

16 August 2016 in Marvel Comics, Race.

Astro City: Shedding Light on Race in the Dark Age

The role of race in reconstructing the Bronze Age.

28 June 2016 in Comics, Race.

Marvel Five-in-One: Prominent, Notorious and Invisible Black Lives of the Marvel Universe

Exploring the limits of diversity in a white supremacist framework through a five-in-one look at 1978’s Marvel Two-in-One.

24 May 2016 in Marvel Comics, Race.

Miles From Representation: On Needing More from Bendis’s Spider-Man

What do we need to do to get a decent Afro-Latinx superhero?

5 April 2016 in Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Race.

The Captain White America Needs

Because you can’t trust even the best-intentioned white Captain America to know what’s up.

3 November 2015 in Comics, Politics, Race.

Do Zombie Lives Matter? Fear the Walking Dead & Zombie Politics

Putting Fear the Walking Dead’s allusion to national zeitgeist regarding police brutality into context.

15 September 2015 in Politics, Race, TV.

Imperfect Storm (Part Three): “Return of the Goddess”

Storm’s return to the site of her X-origin and the awkward undoing of her “goddess” identity.

28 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

“Hip Hop Started Out in the Art” – Tom Brevoort, Post-Racial Hip Hop & Comics

You can’t separate hip hop from race without looking like you’ve separated your head from sense.

16 July 2015 in Marvel Comics, Music, Race.

Imperfect Storm (Part Two): Exploring “Lifedeath II”

Part Two of Exploring Storm as a postcolonial figure.

14 July 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

Imperfect Storm (Part One): Exploring “Lifedeath”

Exploring the relationship between seriality, identity and the colonial imagination through X-Men’s Storm.

30 June 2015 in Literary Theory, Marvel Comics, Race.

Should We Marvel at a Black Captain America?

Sam Wilson’s characterization as the rugged individual and then his ascension to the role of Captain America are political messages that must be addressed beyond the tendency of media to oversimplify the political ramifications of things, or streamline complex histories

5 May 2015 in Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Race.

“I Know It When I See It”- Race, Relatability, and Reading Practice

The ways fans of color engage with characters and stories can re-circuit and re-interpret those stories in ways that provide the kind of productive identification that challenges that tired old repetitive and thoughtless representation.

7 April 2015 in Comics, Race.

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?

31 March 2015 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Race.

The Man Who Lived Twice! (If You Can Call That Living): Marvel’s Brother Voodoo

The fourth in a series of posts about black superheroes. Marvel Comics’ Brother Voodoo—a character to feel really conflicted about.

17 March 2015 in Authenticity, Marvel Comics, Race, Religion.

Robocop: Representation By Erasure & The White-Washing of Detroit.

For a movie set in Detroit, it seems awful white.

13 January 2015 in Film, Race, Urban Space.

Super Hegemonic Team-up! Spider-Man, Daredevil & “The Death of Jean DeWolfe”

In this story, Spider-Man and Daredevil demonstrate a hegemonic framework for understanding urban crime (part of SUPER BLOG TEAM-UP #4).

24 September 2014 in Marvel Comics, Politics, Race.

“The More Things Change. . .” Golden Legacy, Affirmative Action & Black Comics

This Golden Legacy comic on the life of MLK is notable for three reasons.

17 June 2014 in Comics, History, Politics, Race.

Days of Future Now: Reflections on X-Men Comics & “Days of Future Past” (Part Two of Two)

This is Part Two of a two-part series of posts on the classic X-Men comics arc, “Days of Future Past.”

27 May 2014 in Marvel Comics, Politics, Race, Urban Space.

“And Then We Take It Higher” – Interpreting Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue”

Poor black and brown people in the West joined by music and their relation to power.

29 October 2013 in Music, Race, Urban Space.

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.

22 October 2013 in Authenticity, DC Comics, Race, Urban Space.

“It’s Not About a Salary. It’s All About Reality. . .” KRS-One, ‘My Philosophy’ & Discursive Tension

By All Means Necessary a record that tries to consciously address a variety of issues in the communities of people listening to it, while not sacrificing the braggadocio and arrogant subjectivity that so often gives hip hop its energy and fun.

12 August 2013 in Authenticity, Music, Race, Teaching.

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