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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
1978825013
ISBN-13
9781978825017
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3058376360
Product Key Features
Book Title
Desegregating Comics : Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Comics & Graphic Novels, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-037744
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230202
Reviews
Only someone living in a cave wouldn't see how thoroughly comics permeate American culture. But even those knowledgeable about graphic arts may not be aware of how comics mirror this nation's often tortured racial history. And even fewer people know about the pioneering black artists who worked to challenge and change racist stereotypes. What that means is that the ground-breaking essays in Desegregating Comics are essential contributions to an exciting, relatively new field of long-overdue scholarship., Desegregating Comics is essential reading for those seeking a more complex and revisionist history of the Black image in comics in the first half of the twentieth century. It includes leading voices in media, literature, gender, and Black studies who unearth the collaborative efforts in the industry to reshape visual and narrative renderings of spectacular blackness and speculations of blackness., Only someone living in a cave wouldn't see how thoroughly comics permeate American culture. But even those knowledgeable about graphic arts may not be aware of how comics mirror this nation's often tortured racial history. And even fewer people know about the pioneering Black artists who worked to challenge and change racist stereotypes. What that means is that the groundbreaking essays in Desegregating Comics are essential contributions to an exciting, relatively new field of long-overdue scholarship., Only someone living in a cave wouldn't see how thoroughly comics permeate American culture. But even those knowledgeable about graphic arts may not be aware of how comics mirror this nation's often tortured racial history. And even fewer people know about the pioneering Black artists who worked to challenge and change racist stereotypes. What that means is that the ground-breaking essays in Desegregating Comics are essential contributions to an exciting, relatively new field of long-overdue scholarship.
Grade From
Eleventh Grade
Dewey Decimal
741.5/352996073
Table Of Content
Introduction: "An Apt Cartoon" QIANA WHITTED Part I Iconographies of Race and Racism 1 Rose O'Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness IAN GORDON 2 The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat NICHOLAS SAMMOND 3 "How Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?": Racial Caricature and Will Eisner's Legacy 61 ANDREW J. KUNKA Part II Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range 4 Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation REBECCA WANZO 5 Misdirections in Matt Baker's Phantom Lady CHRIS GAVALER AND MONALESIA EARLE 6 The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth BLAIR DAVIS 7 "Hello Public!": Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier ELI BOONIN-VAIL Part III Comics Readership and Respectability Politics 8 "Never Any Dirty Ones": Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century CAROL L. TILLEY 9 All-Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age QIANA WHITTED 10 "This Business of White and Black": Captain Marvel's Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett's Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero BRIAN CREMINS 11 Al Hollingsworth's Kandy : Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics MORA J. BEAUCHAMP-BYRD Part IV Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention 12 Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in "The Voodoo Man" PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM 13 Love in Color: Fawcett's Revolutionary Negro Romance JACQUE NODELL 14 An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital JULIAN C. CHAMBLISS 15 "For They Were There!": Dell Comics' Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books MIKE LEMON Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Synopsis
Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize Shortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner Award Honorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies from the Popular Culture Association Some comics fans view the industry's Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or unintelligible minstrels. Yet the true portrait is more complex and reveals that even as caricatures predominated, some Golden Age comics creators offered more progressive and nuanced depictions of Black people. Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of Blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. Some essays showcase rare titles like Negro Romance and consider the formal innovations introduced by Black comics creators like Matt Baker and Alvin Hollingsworth, while others examine the treatment of race in the work of such canonical cartoonists as George Herriman and Will Eisner. The collection also investigates how Black fans read and loved comics, but implored publishers to stop including hurtful stereotypes. As this book shows, Golden Age comics artists, writers, editors, distributors, and readers engaged in heated negotiations over how Blackness should be portrayed, and the outcomes of those debates continue to shape popular culture today., Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of Blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. It examines not only the racial stereotypes that predominated, but also the innovations of Black comics artists and the activism of Black fans.
LC Classification Number
PN6725.D47 2023
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