The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art by John Jennings, Kinohi Nishikawa, Patrick F. Walter, William Lafi Youmans, Sally McWilliams, Andre Carrington, Daniel F. Yezbick, Consuela Francis, Nancy Goldstein, Rebecca Wanzo, Frances Gateward, Blair Davis, Hershini Bhana Young, Reynaldo Anderson, Robin Means Coleman, James J. Ziegler, Craig Fischer, Qiana Whitted

The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

John Jennings, Kinohi Nishikawa, Patrick F. Walter, William Lafi Youmans, Sally McWilliams, Andre Carrington, Daniel F. Yezbick, Consuela Francis, Nancy Goldstein, Rebecca Wanzo, Frances Gateward, Blair Davis, Hershini Bhana Young, Reynaldo Anderson, Robin Means Coleman, James J. Ziegler, Craig Fischer, Qiana Whitted

356 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction comics race challenging informative slow-paced

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When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American s...

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