Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A must read."
-- Laura Sneddon * Women Write about Comics *
"Whaley presents a compelling study of women of African descent in American comics. . . . The kaleidoscopic nature of her study allows readers to form a comprehensive idea about the politics of race and gender in American comics from the late 1930s until today. . . . With its far‐ranging thematic scope and range, Black Women in Sequence is destined to become a cornerstone in the study of gender and race in American comics."
-- Kirsten Mollegaard * Journal of Popular Culture *
"One of the first book-length works to deal specifically with the construction and experience of black women in sequential art. . . . Whaley considers the creation and consumption of sequential media by black women, often erased from conversations about fan culture. . . . An extraordinarily ambitious work."
-- Joshua Abraham Kopin * American Literature *
"Engaging and provocative, Black Women in Sequence is relevant not only to comic scholars, but to anyone with an interest in how difference is represented using visual rhetoric."
* Feminist Media Studies *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Re-inking the Nation: Jackie Ormes’s Black Cultural Front Comics
2. Black Cat Got Your Tongue?: Catwoman, Blackness, and Postracialism
3. African Goddesses, Mixed-Race Wonders, and Baadasssss Women: Black Women as “Signs” of African in US Comics
4. Anime Dreams for African Girls: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
5. Where I’m Coming From: Black Female Artists and Postmodern Comix
Conclusion: Comic Book Divas and the Making of Sequential Subjects
Notes
Index
