Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441172769 ISBN 13: 9781441172761

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

“Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation” (Bloomsbury), edited by Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II, is an especially essential work because it not only holds a clear and illuminating mirror up to the faces we see on paper, but it also attaches faces and personal back-stories to black writers and artists — pioneers who are all too overlooked, who faced struggles all too forgotten.”-Michael Cavna, The Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1441172769
• ISBN 13: 9781441172761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Howard Sheena C., Jackson II Ronald L.