Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes

by Adilifu Nama

Book Overview

Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292726740
• ISBN13: 9780292726741
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"