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Visual Culture

Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen

February 11, 2020February 9, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #Watchmen, Black Queers, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance, Visual Culture, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  In the early

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Black Art and Social Justice: An Interview with Elizabeth Burden

June 14, 2018June 18, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly art, blackness, race, Resistance, social justice, Visual Culture

In May 1967, Black Panther newspaper began incorporating “revolutionary art,” including drawings, political cartoons, and mixed-media images to “enlighten” and “educate”

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Black History, Sequential Art, and the Power of Representation

May 26, 2018June 2, 2018 John Craig #BlackPanther, art, Black Power, comics, Visual Culture

*This post is part of our blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason,

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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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Harriet Tubman, ca. 1860–1875. Photo: Library of Congress.

Pictorial Manifestations: On a Younger Harriet Tubman

February 15, 2017February 19, 2017 Janell Hobson Harriet Tubman, Post-Civil War, slavery, Underground Railroad, Visual Culture

Few may remember the rather juvenile comments objecting to the announcement on April 20, 2016 by the Department of the

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