The Hidden Fortress: No Ivy League and Legacies of Whiteness
Interrogating the complex legacies of racial injustice in Hazel Newlevant’s No Ivy League and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.
Striking Back: Black Lightning and Reading Race (part two)
When Black Lightning rejects the Justice League he is rejecting white supremacy.
“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.
“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 