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Tag Archives: whiteness

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Retuning Nostalgia: Anti-Black Racism and the Cultural Politics of Country Music

Nicholas Miller returns with an essay on whiteness, country music nostalgia, and charting a new course to re-imagine the past and the future.

1 June 2021 in Music, Race.

Unstable Masks; Or, The Whiteness of the Superhero (a preview)

A guest post in the form of a preview of the forthcoming anthology, Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics.

17 December 2019 in Comics, Guest Post, Race.

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.

19 November 2019 in Books, Independent Comics, Race.

Where Everybody Knows You’re Men: NBC’s Cheers & White American Masculinity

When manhood and nation are synonymous women just become a way for men measure patriotism.

5 March 2019 in Gender, TV.

Guess Who’s Coming Home for the Holidays: Intergenerational Conflict in Bitch Planet

Everyone’s Grandma is a Little Bit Feminist” from Bitch Planet: Triple Feature #5 asks us to imagine what makes an older relative inappropriate in a dystopic society.

11 December 2018 in Comics, Gender.

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.

22 October 2013 in Authenticity, DC Comics, Race, Urban Space.
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