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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.

It’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman

More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.

3 March 2013 in DC Comics, Gender.

Dial H: I Would Prefer Not To. . .

This issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race in comics.

22 January 2013 in DC Comics, Race.

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