Rebecca Wanzo

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The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political BelongingPaperback, 21 April 2020

The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging
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Part of Series
Postmillennial Pop
Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
21 Apr 2020
ISBN-10
147988958X
ISBN-13
9781479889587

Description

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

**Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
**
Honorable Mention, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association

*Winner, 2020 Charles Hatfield Book Prize, given by the Comic Studies Society
*
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.

Product Details

Author:
Rebecca Wanzo
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 April 2020
Dimensions:
25.15 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm
Genre:
African American
ISBN-10:
147988958X
ISBN-13:
9781479889587
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Weight:
498.95 gm

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