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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Adilifu Nama
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Description for Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Paperback. An exploration of black superheroes as a fascinating racial phenomenon and a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society Num Pages: 212 pages, 64 b&w and 21 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012 Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value-and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity-in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of ... Read more
Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012 Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value-and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity-in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292726741
SKU
V9780292726741
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About Adilifu Nama
Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of the award-winning books Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes and Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film.
Reviews for Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Throughout, Nama takes a refreshingly nuanced approach to his subject. Nama complicates the black superhero by also seeing the ways that they put issues of post-colonialism, race, poverty, and identity struggles front and center.
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This well-conceptualized, well-written book is enriched by Nama's witty turns of expression, occasional corrections of earlier errors and omissions, and ... Read more
Rain Taxi
This well-conceptualized, well-written book is enriched by Nama's witty turns of expression, occasional corrections of earlier errors and omissions, and ... Read more