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1 online resource (259 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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Postmillennial Pop ; 25
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Postmillennial pop.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head. Revealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States. Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard 'Grass' Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Cruté, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed."--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
Introduction: A visual grammar of citizenship -- "Impussanations," coons, and civic ideals: a black comics aesthetic -- The revolutionary body: Nat Turner, King, and frozen subjection -- Wearing hero-face: melancholic patriotism in Truth: Red, White, & Black -- "The only thing unAmerican about me is the treatment I get!": Infantile citizenship and the situational grotesque -- Rape and race in the gutter: equal opportunity humor aesthetics and underground comix -- To caricature, with love: a Black Panther coda. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American cartoonists.
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African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons -- History.
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African Americans in comics.
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Racism in cartoons -- United States.
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Racism in comics.
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Belonging (Social psychology) -- United States.
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Belonging (Social psychology) in art.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. |
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Racism in comics |
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African Americans in comics |
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African American cartoonists |
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African Americans |
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Belonging (Social psychology) |
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Belonging (Social psychology) in art |
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Racism in cartoons |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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History
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Comics criticism
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Caricatures and cartoons
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Comics criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wanzo, Rebecca Ann, 1975- Content of our caricature. New York : New York University Press, 2020 9781479840083 (DLC) 2019030821 (OCoLC)1120783866 |
| ISBN |
9781479813636 (electronic bk.) |
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147981363X (electronic bk.) |
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9781479822195 (electronic bk.) |
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1479822191 (electronic bk.) |
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9781479840083 (hardcover) |
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1479840084 (hardcover) |
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9781479889587 (paperback) |
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147988958X (paperback) |
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