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Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation

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Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Highest Scholarly/Academic Work.

Bringing in combination contributors from a large-range of important perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the varied contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cool animated film strips from the early 20th century to the current, the book explores the ways through which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes because the Black revel in, gender identity, politics and social media.

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation introduces students to such key texts as:
The work of Jackie Ormes
Black women superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther
Aaron McGruder’s strip The Boondocks

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