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Urban Space

WAUGH and On and On #1: Neither Fish Nor Fowl

A return to Howard the Duck after a nearly three-year hiatus from the If It WAUGHs Like a Duck series. . .

4 June 2019 in Marvel Comics, Race, Reading Series, Urban Space.

Songs in Conversation: Don’t Knock the Intimacy of Urban Sound

Tony Orlando & Dawn’s “Knock Three Times” vs. Suzanne Vega’s “Luka” in the soundscape of urban living.

30 August 2016 in Music, Songs in Conversation, Sound Studies, Urban Space.

“Yo Soy Yancy Street!” El Thing About Place & Identity

A recent Marvel story connecting Groot to Puerto Rican culture via a visit with the Thing to Marvel’s Lower East Side analog, Yancy Street got me thinking about place and identity.

15 March 2016 in Authenticity, Comics, Urban Space.

Power Pack Says Crack is Wack!

Marvel’s kid superheroes in the Crack Era, need to learn to just say “No” to white privilege.

22 December 2015 in Marvel Comics, Urban Space.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

Do-Or-Die Hawkeye. . . Erm. . . Bed-Stuy

Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye takes place in Bed-Stuy, but where are the black people?

13 May 2013 in Marvel Comics, Race, Urban Space.
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