Qiana Whitted
Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Herausgeber: Whitted, Qiana
Qiana Whitted
Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Herausgeber: Whitted, Qiana
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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.
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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.
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- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 33mm
- Gewicht: 481g
- ISBN-13: 9781978825024
- ISBN-10: 1978825021
- Artikelnr.: 66406719
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 33mm
- Gewicht: 481g
- ISBN-13: 9781978825024
- ISBN-10: 1978825021
- Artikelnr.: 66406719
QIANA WHITTED is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina. Her books include A God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and the Eisner Award–winning EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest. She has also served as chair of the International Comic Arts Forum and is the editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
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
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
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
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