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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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Holloway House and the Black Literary Underground

December 5, 2019November 30, 2019 Matthew Teutsch book review, culture, literature, popular culture, publishing, race

How do authors such as Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) and Donald Goines go from catering to white audiences with “black

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Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Kevin C. Quin masculinity, Racial Violence, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

In Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, historian Thomas Foster examines how the conditions of slavery gave rise to

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A Complicitous Critique: Reading Dwayne McDuffie’s ‘Icon’ in the Wake of ‘The Death of Superman’

October 10, 2019October 6, 2019 Phillip L. Cunningham #MilestoneMedia, Black women, comic books, comics, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. The year 1993 proved a

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The Violence of Racial Capitalism in Dakota

October 9, 2019October 6, 2019 André Carrington #MilestoneMedia, criminal justice system, police violence, poverty, race, Race and Economic History, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In the 2018 horror film

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