Awards

• Winner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Scholarly/Academic Work 2014
• Winner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Scholarly/Academic Work 2014 (United States)

Overview

Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work. Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience, 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

Full Product Details

Author:   Dr Sheena C. Howard ,  Professor Ronald L. Jackson II
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781441135285

ISBN 10:   1441135286
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Foreword, William Foster III Introduction, Sheena Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II Part I: Comics Then & Now 1. Brief History of The Black Comic Strip: Past and Present, Sheena C. Howard 2. The Trouble With Romance in Jackie Ormes's Comics, Nancy Goldstein 3. Contemporary Representations of Black Females in Newspaper Comic Strips, Tia C. M. Tyree 4. Black Comics and Social Media, Derek Lackaff and Michael Sales 5. Beyond B&W? The Global Manga of Felipe Smith, Casey Brienza Part II: Representing Race & Gender 6. Studying Black Comic Strips: Popular Culture, African American Repertoire, and Discourses of Race, Angela M. Nelson 7. Blowing Flames into the Souls of Black Folk: Ollie Harrington and his Bombs from Berlin to Harlem, Christian Davenport 8. Panthers and Vixens: Black Superheroines and Sexuality in Contemporary Comic Books, Jeffrey A. Brown 9. Gender, Race and The Boondocks, Sheena C. Howard 10. From Sexual Siren to Race Traitor: Condoleeza Rice in Political Cartoons, Clariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Reyes Garcia Part III: Comics as Political Commentary 11. ""There's a Revolutionary Messiah in Our Mist"": A Pentadic Analysis of Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel , Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson II 12. Inappropriate Political Content: Serialized Comic Strips at the Intersection of Visual Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Humor, Elizabeth Sills 13. Will the ""Real"" Black Super Heroes Please Stand Up?!, Kenneth Ghee 14. Culturally Gatekeeping the Black Comic Strip, David DeIuliis Afterword, Jeet Heer Bibliography Index"

Reviews

Overall, Black Comics is an extremely well rounded and impressive work of scholarship. Though this book spans a wide breadth of critical perspectives on various Black comic creators, its critical inquiry is focused and sustained. ... Black Comics is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship. -- Francesca Lyn ImageTexT

Author Information

Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA. Ronald L. Jackson II is Dean of McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati, USA. His many previous publications include The Negotiation of Identity and Scripting the Black Masculine Body.

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