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Barcode37821002495105
LocationMarshall District
TitleDesegregating comics : debating Blackness in the golden age of American comics / edited by Qiana Whitted.
Call No741.5 DES
CollectionAdult 700

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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781978825017
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 741.5/352996073
Title Statement Desegregating comics : debating Blackness in the golden age of American comics / edited by Qiana Whitted.
Imprint New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2023
Physical Description pages cm
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc. "Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics explores race and blackness in comic books, comic strips, and editorial cartoons in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century through the height of the industry's popularity in the 1950s. The historical perception of Black people in comic art has long been tied to caricatures of indecipherable minstrels, devious witch doctors, and brutal savages. Yet the chapters in this collection reveal a more complex narrative and aesthetic landscape, one that was enriched by the negotiations among comics artists, writers, editors, distributors, and readers over how blackness should be portrayed in popular culture. This book brings together an extraordinary group of scholars in comics studies to consider the lasting impact of the Jim Crow era's tumultuous racial politics on the most prolific decades of the American comics industry"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Comic books, strips, etc. United States History and criticism.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans in popular culture.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Comic books, strips, etc. Social aspects United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Race in comics.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans in comics.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans Race identity History 20th century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Racism and the arts United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American cartoonists History 20th century.
Added Entry, Personal Name Whitted, Qiana J., 1974- editor.