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Pt. 1. Comics then and now. Brief history of the black comic strip: past and present / Sheena C. Howard ; The trouble with romance in Jackie Ormes's comics / Nancy Goldstein ; Contemporary representations of black females in newspaper comic strips / Tia C.M Tyree ; Black comics and social media economics: new media, new production models / Derek Lackaff and Michael Sales ; Beyond b&w? The global manga of Felipe Smith / Casey Brienza

pt. 2. Representing race and gender. Studying black comic strips: popular art and discourses of race / Angela M. Nelson ; Blowing flames into the souls of black folk: Ollie Harrington and his bombs from Berlin to Harlem / Christian Davenport ; Panthers and vixens: Black superheroines, sexuality, and stereotypes in contemporary comic books / Jeffrey A. Brown ; Gender, race, and The Boondocks / Sheena C. Howard ; From sexual siren to race traitor: Condoleeza Rice in political cartoons / Clariza Ruiz De Castilla and Zazil Elena Reyes Garcia

pt. 3. Comics as political commentary. "There's a revolutionary messiah in our mist": a pentadic analysis of Birth of a Nation: a comic novel / Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L Jackson II ; Inappropriate political content: serialized comic strips at the intersection of visual rhetoric and the rhetoric of humor / Elizabeth Sills ; "Will the 'real' black superheroes please stand up?!": a critical analysis of the mythological and cultural significance of black superheroes / Kenneth Ghee ; Culturally gatekeeping the black comic / David Deluliis.

Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects > United States.