{"product_id":"desegregating-comics-debating-blackness-in-the-golden-age-of-american-comics-paperback-softback-9781978825017","title":"Desegregating Comics; Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978825017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDesegregating Comics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDebating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eQiana Whitted (Edited by), Qiana Whitted (Author), Ian Gordon (Contributions by), Nicholas Sammond (Contributions by), Andrew J. Kunka (Contributions by), Rebecca Wanzo (Contributions by), Chris Gavaler (Contributions by), Monalesia Earle (Contributions by), Blair Davis (Contributions by), Eli Boonin-Vail (Contributions by), Carol L. Tilley (Contributions by), Qiana Whitted (Contributions by), Brian Cremins (Contributions by), Mora Beauchamp-Byrd (Contributions by), Phillip Lamarr Cunningham (Contributions by), Jacque Nodell (Contributions by), Julian C. Chambliss (Contributions by), Mike Lemon (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978825017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 37 bw, 29 color\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eDesegregating Comics\u003c\/i\u003e are essential contributions to an exciting, relatively new field of long-overdue scholarship.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Charles Johnson (National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDesegregating Comics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Deborah Elizabeth Whaley (author of Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSome 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesegregating Comics \u003c\/i\u003eassembles 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 \u003ci\u003eNegro Romance \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: “\u003cbr\u003eAn Apt Cartoon”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e QIANA WHITTED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I Iconographies of Race and Racism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Rose O’\u003cbr\u003eNeill and Visual Tropes of Blackness \u003cbr\u003e IAN GORDON\u003cbr\u003e 2 The Passing Fancies of \u003ci\u003eKrazy Kat \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NICHOLAS SAMMOND\u003cbr\u003e 3 “\u003cbr\u003eHow Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?”\u003cbr\u003e: Racial Caricature and Will Eisner’\u003cbr\u003es Legacy 61\u003cbr\u003e ANDREW J. KUNKA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation \u003cbr\u003e REBECCA WANZO\u003cbr\u003e 5 Misdirections in Matt Baker’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003ePhantom Lady \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHRIS GAVALER AND MONALESIA EARLE\u003cbr\u003e 6 The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth \u003cbr\u003e BLAIR DAVIS\u003cbr\u003e 7 “\u003cbr\u003eHello Public!”\u003cbr\u003e: Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the\u003ci\u003e Pittsburgh Courier \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELI BOONIN-VAIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III Comics Readership and Respectability Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 “\u003cbr\u003eNever Any Dirty Ones”\u003cbr\u003e: Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century \u003cbr\u003e CAROL L. TILLEY\u003cbr\u003e 9 \u003ci\u003eAll-Negro Comics\u003c\/i\u003e and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age \u003cbr\u003e QIANA WHITTED\u003cbr\u003e 10 “\u003cbr\u003eThis Business of White and Black”\u003cbr\u003e: Captain Marvel’\u003cbr\u003es Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eRoy Campanella, Baseball Hero\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e BRIAN CREMINS\u003cbr\u003e 11 Al Hollingsworth’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eKandy\u003c\/i\u003e: Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics \u003cbr\u003e MORA J. BEAUCHAMP-BYRD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12 Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in “\u003cbr\u003eThe Voodoo Man”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM\u003cbr\u003e 13 Love in Color: Fawcett’\u003cbr\u003es Revolutionary \u003ci\u003eNegro Romance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e JACQUE NODELL\u003cbr\u003e 14 An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital \u003cbr\u003e JULIAN C. CHAMBLISS\u003cbr\u003e 15 “\u003cbr\u003eFor They Were There!”\u003cbr\u003e: Dell Comics’\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLobo\u003c\/i\u003e and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books \u003cbr\u003e MIKE LEMON\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681264070936,"sku":"9781978825017","price":28.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/desegregating-comics-debating-blackness-in-the-golden-age-of-american-comics-paperback-softback-9781978825017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}