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Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora
In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive. Young argues for that will's illegibility, given the paucity of materials outlining the agency of black historical subjects... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Blacker the Ink
by John Jennings • Craig Fischer • Frances Gateward • Rebecca Wanzo • William Lafi Youmans • Kinohi Nishikawa • Blair Davis • Nancy Goldstein • Daniel F. Yezbick • Sally Mcwilliams • James J. Zeigler • Qiana Whitted • Reynaldo Anderson • Hershini Bhana Young • Robin Means Coleman • Patrick F. Walter • Consuela Francis • Andre CarringtonWhen 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 superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerg... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015