Research Catalog

Title

The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art / edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings.

Publication

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gateward, Frances K.
• Jennings, John, 1970-

Description

ix, 343 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• African American cartoonists
• African Americans in literature
• Comic books, strips, etc > Social aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the sweeter the Christmas / Frances Gateward and John Jennings -- "No sweat!": EC Comics, cold war censorship, and the troublesome colors of Judgment day / Daniel F. Yezbick -- Sex in Yop City: Ivorian femininity and masculinity in Abouet and Oubrerie's Aya / Sally McWilliams -- A post-colony in pieces: black pieces, white masks, and queer potentials in Unknown soldier / Patrick Walter -- Fashion in the funny papers: cartoonist Jackie Ormes's American look / Nancy Goldstein -- Graphic remix: the lateral appropriation of Black nationalism in Aaron McGruder's The Boomdocks / Robin R. Means Coleman and William Lafi Youmans -- American truths: Blackness and the American superhero / Consuela Francis -- Drawn into dialogue: comic book culture and the scene of controversy in Milestone Media's Icon / Andre Carrington -- Critical Afrofuturism: a case study in visual rhetoric, sequential art, and post-apocalyptic Black identity / Reynaldo Anderson -- Bare chests, silver tiaras, and removable Afros: the visual design of Black comic book superheroes / Blair Davis -- "Daddy Cool": Donald Goines's visual novel / Kinohi Nishikawa -- The blues tragicomic: constructing the Black folk subject in Stagger Lee / Qiana Whitted -- Provocation through polyphony: Kyle Baker's Nat Turner / Craig Fischer -- Performance geography: making space in Jeremy Love's Bayou, volume 1 / Hershini Bhana Young -- A secret history of miscegenation: Jeremy Corrigan and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 / James J. Ziegler -- It's a hero?: Black comics and satirizing subjection / Rebecca Wanzo.

Call Number

Sc E 15-1431

ISBN

• 9780813572345 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813572347 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780813572338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813572339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813572352 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780813572369 (web pdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014035926

OCLC

890793064

Title

The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art / edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings.

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gateward, Frances K., editor.

Jennings, John, 1970- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1431