“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.
You can’t separate hip hop from race without looking like you’ve separated your head from sense.
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.
This Golden Legacy comic on the life of MLK is notable for three reasons.
Stevie is challenging traditional notions of white-washed American history and what kinds of accomplishments should be included in that narrative.
Evil by degrees.