{"product_id":"black-comics-9781441135285","title":"Black Comics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly\/Academic Work\u003c\/b\u003eBringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, \u003ci\u003eBlack Comics: Politics of Race and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBlack Comics: Politics of Race and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall, \u003ci\u003eBlack Comics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. … \u003ci\u003eBlack Comics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eBlack 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, Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, \u003ci\u003eWilliam Foster III\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction, \u003ci\u003eSheena Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Comics Then \u0026amp; Now\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Brief History of The Black Comic Strip: Past and Present, \u003ci\u003eSheena C. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e  2. The Trouble With Romance in Jackie Ormes's Comics, \u003ci\u003eNancy Goldstein\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Contemporary Representations of Black Females in Newspaper Comic Strips, \u003ci\u003eTia C. M. Tyree\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Black Comics and Social Media, \u003ci\u003eDerek Lackaff and Michael Sales\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Beyond B\u0026amp;W? The Global Manga of Felipe Smith, \u003ci\u003eCasey Brienza\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Representing Race \u0026amp; Gender\u003c\/b\u003e  6. Studying Black Comic Strips: Popular Culture, African American Repertoire, and Discourses of Race, \u003ci\u003eAngela M. Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Blowing Flames into the Souls of Black Folk: Ollie Harrington and his Bombs from Berlin to Harlem, \u003ci\u003eChristian Davenport\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Panthers and Vixens: Black Superheroines and Sexuality in Contemporary Comic Books, \u003ci\u003eJeffrey A. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Gender, Race and \u003ci\u003eThe Boondocks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSheena C. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e  10. From Sexual Siren to Race Traitor: Condoleeza Rice in Political Cartoons, \u003ci\u003eClariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Reyes Garcia\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Comics as Political Commentary\u003c\/b\u003e  11. \"There's a Revolutionary Messiah in Our Mist\": A Pentadic Analysis of Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel , \u003ci\u003eCarlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson II\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Inappropriate Political Content: Serialized Comic Strips at the Intersection of Visual Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Humor, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Sills\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Will the \"Real\" Black Super Heroes Please Stand Up?!, \u003ci\u003eKenneth Ghee\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Culturally Gatekeeping the Black Comic Strip, \u003ci\u003eDavid DeIuliis\u003c\/i\u003e  Afterword, \u003ci\u003eJeet Heer \u003c\/i\u003e Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769646285143,"sku":"9781441135285","price":31.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441135285.jpg?v=1758722039","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-comics-9781441135285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}