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  • Activism and “Good Trouble” in the March Trilogy

    By Leah Milne  December 14, 2016 This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason. In the pages of John Lewis’s graphic novel, March: Book Three, Civil Rights leader C.T. Vivian faces down the sheriff and other authority figures at the Dallas County Courthouse in 1965. As…

  • The Racial Politics of the Urban Saçi Graffiti Series in São Paulo, Brazil

    By Reighan Gillam  January 4, 2017 This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason. Graffiti covers many of São Paulo’s walls like a creative and colorful blanket laying upon the concrete. In The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, authors Rafael Schacter…

  • Racial Division and Trauma in the Comics

    By Sam Knowles  October 19, 2016 This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason. In the twelfth episode of the 2016 TV series Luke Cage (based on a Marvel comic from 1972) the protagonist – on the run from the police – interrupts an armed robbery.…

  • Luke Cage and the African American Literary Tradition

    By Matthew Teutsch  November 1, 2016 This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason. Marvel’s Luke Cage debuted on Netflix on September 30, 2016. One day after its appearance on the streaming service, Netflix’s servers crashed because so many people flooded the site. The mere fact…

  • Can Superheroes Be Woke?: Black Liberation and the Black Panther

    By Vincent Haddad  February 24, 2018 *This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason, examines the Black Panther and the narrative world linked to the character in comics, animation, and film. Coinciding with the multi-year production of the Black Panther movie (formally announced in 2013), Marvel hiredrenowned…

  • Black Panther, Surveillance, and Racial Profiling

    By Matthew Teutsch  March 10, 2018 *This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason, examines the Black Panther and the narrative world linked to the character in comics, animation, and film. In 1972, the reemergence of Black Panther, and the foregrounding of T’Challa as…

  • Black Panther and Cold War Colonialism in the Marvel Universe

    By Jonathan W. Gray  March 17, 2018 *This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason, examines the Black Panther and the narrative world linked to the character in comics, animation, and film. The Black Panther’s 1966 debut, in Fantastic Four #52 and #53, establishes him as…

  • Black Panther, White Supremacy, and Double Consciousness

    By Michael D. Kennedy  March 17, 2018 *This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason, examines the Black Panther and the narrative world linked to the character in comics, animation, and film. “The fact that the Black Panther has endured for more than fifty…

  • Black Panther, Black Power, and the Black Nationalist Tradition

    By Jordan X. Evans  March 21, 2018 *This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason, examines the Black Panther and the narrative world linked to the character in comics, animation, and film. In 1966, the world heard the first roars of three Panthers that…

  • Black Panther, Engineering, and Afrofuturism

    By Woodrow W. Winchester, III  March 24, 2018 *This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason, examines the Black Panther and the narrative world linked to the character in comics, animation, and film. Engineering as a discipline and a profession is at a critical…