“Am I Black Enough For You?” The Respectability of CW’s Black Lightning
The CW’s Black Lighting represents the split between Black respectability and radical politics in a singular figure.
“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.
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.
“This Sorrowful Life” – Making Time to Redeem Racists
The Walking dead trots out the old trope of the racist you love to hate, or maybe that’s (don’t really) hate to love.
The Middle Spaces 