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Tag Archives: blackness

“Say It Loud!” Tyroc and the Trajectory of the Black Superhero (part 1)

Part one in an exploration of how the trajectory of Tyroc’s character provides a blueprint for thinking about the arc of other black superheroes.

3 November 2020 in DC Comics, Race.

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.

25 July 2017 in DC 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.

Additions, Corrections, Retractions

An overview of posts in need of revisiting.

29 December 2015 in Meta, Review.

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.

“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.

“Invisible (Watch)Men: The Impossibility of the Black Superhero”

Miles Morales or Trayvon Martin are more likely to be victim of a “heroic” vigilante than to be one.

22 July 2013 in Comics, Race.

“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.

Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man

Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.

5 November 2012 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Race.

Four-Color Color-Blindness: Black Iron Man

Reed Richards is not so fantastic when it comes to understanding race in America.

19 October 2012 in Marvel Comics, Race.

Spider-Man is Black

Spider-man is Black. Or at least, he could be. . .

27 May 2012 in Gender, Marvel Comics, Race.
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