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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword William Foster III
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II
PART ONE Comics then and 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 economics: New media, new production models
Derek Lackaff and Michael Sales
5 Beyond b&w? The global manga of Felipe Smith
Casey Brienza
PART TWO Representing race and gender
6 Studying black comic strips: Popular art 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, sexuality, and stereotypes in contemporary comic books
Jeffrey A. Brown
9 Gender, race, and The Boondocks
Sheena C. Howard
10 From sexual siren to race traitor: Condoleezza Rice in political cartoons
Clariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Elena Reyes Garcia
PART THREE 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 Superheroes Please Stand Up?!”: A critical analysis of the mythological and cultural significance of black superheroes
Kenneth Ghee
14 Culturally gatekeeping the black comic strip
David Deiuliis
Afterword Jeet Heer
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