The (re)Collection Agency #2: A Conversation with Qiana Whitted
The second in our on-going series of interviews with comics scholars.
Astro City: Shedding Light on Race in the Dark Age
The role of race in reconstructing the Bronze Age.
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.
The Captain White America Needs
Because you can’t trust even the best-intentioned white Captain America to know what’s up.
Do Zombie Lives Matter? Fear the Walking Dead & Zombie Politics
Putting Fear the Walking Dead’s allusion to national zeitgeist regarding police brutality into context.
“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.
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?
