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White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
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White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books

White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books analyzes the subject of representations of Black masculinity in comic books; a popular culture genre which existed before television and whose reach ex..

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
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Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Id..

Woubi cheri
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Woubi cheri

Woubi Cheri is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces us to gender pioneers demanding t..

Zan Boko
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Zan Boko

Gaston Kaboré's film Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity, a central theme in many contemporary African films, such as Keita and Ta Dona. It tells the poignant story of a village family swept u..

Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as o..

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