ISBN:
9781479813636
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (245 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Postmillennial Pop Band 25
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800973022/2
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Aaron McGruder;African American Art;African American cartoonists;African American children;African American Soldiers;African Americans;Black Aesthetics;Black Body;black liberation;black masculinity;Black Panther;Black superheroes
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Brumsic Brandon Jr
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Captain America
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Civil Rights Movement
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Comics
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Hermeneutic
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Ho Che Anderson
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Icon
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Jennifer Cruté
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Kyle Baker
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Larry Fuller
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Nat Turner
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Ollie Harrington
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R Crumb
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Richard Grass Green
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Thomas Nast
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U.S. comics
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Violence
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World War II.
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citizenship
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editorial cartoons
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equal opportunity humor
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infantile citizenship
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offensive humor
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racial melancholia
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slavery
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stereotype
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underground comix
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visual culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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African Americans Caricatures and cartoons
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Belonging (Social psychology) in art
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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Racism in cartoons
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Zugehörigkeit
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Comic
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Subkultur
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Karikatur
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Schwarze
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USA
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USA
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Schwarze
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Karikatur
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Zugehörigkeit
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Geschichte
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USA
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Schwarze
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Comic
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Subkultur
Abstract:
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its headRevealing 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
DOI:
10.18574/9781479813636
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479813636
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