Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics by Whitted, Qiana

Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Some comics fans view the industry's Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to...
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Author: Qiana Whitted
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Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics by Whitted, Qiana

Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

$71.17

Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

$71.17
Author: Qiana Whitted
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Some 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.

Desegregating Comics assembles 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 Negro Romance and 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.

Author: Qiana Whitted
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 05/12/2023
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781978825017

About the Author
QIANA WHITTED is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina. Her books include A God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and the Eisner Award-winning EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest. She has also served as chair of the International Comic Arts Forum and is the editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.

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