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Super Black American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes

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ISBN-10: 0292726740

ISBN-13: 9780292726741

Edition: 2011

Authors: Adilifu Nama

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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 blaxploitation film contexts. Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English