Black Power Fantastic
Adilifu Nama’s book exploration of race among superheroes leaps over the comic history of how black characters entered the genre, but it can’t quite hold its own as a thorough study of the genre.
Posts by Rebecca Wanzo
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Eleven original essays exploring Baldwin’s elusive terrain between private and public, self and history
