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Tag Archives: racial stereotypes
Graphic Insights into Racism
Since George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last May, public outcries have re-focused attention on the injustices that a few years ago triggered today’s Black Lives Matter movement. For readers tween and up, that movement’s emotional center and origins are embodied … Continue reading
Posted in Books, comics
Tagged African-American, Alitha E. Martinez, Amidou Diallo, Audubon On the Wings of the World, Audubon Society, bird-watching, Black Birders Week, Black Lives Matter, Black Panther, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Breonna Taylor, Chadwick Boseman, Christian Cooper, comic book short story, DC comics, George Floyd, graphic short story, Huntington's Chorea, I Am Alfonso Jones, institutional racism, institutional violence, It's a Bird . . ., It's a Bird short story, John Jennings, magical realism, Marvel Comics, Northstar, police, police violence, racial stereotypes, racism, Represent!, Roxanne Gay, semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Stacey Robinson, superhero, Superman, Teddy Krisitiansen, teenage character, Tony Medina
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Let’s Be Visually Literate!
“Comics are the gateway drug to literacy.” This remark by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the graphic memoir Maus, A Survivor’s Tale (1980-1991), is not as controversial nowadays as it would have been in the 1950s. Back then, some … Continue reading
Posted in comics, graphic novels, picture books
Tagged A Birthday Cake for George Washington, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, black face, book burning, Carol Borden, Comixology, cultural literacy, Daniel Torres, diversity, Ebony White, Fagin the Jew, Francoise Mouly, Gilbert Stuart, Hansel & Gretel, Hercules, Jet Heer, Liniers, Lorenzo Mattotti, minstrel show, Neil Gaiman, Nick Sousanis, racial stereotypes, Ramin Ganeshram, reading curriculum, reluctant readers, Scholastic, Scott McCloud, The Spirit: A Celebration of 75 Years, The Spirit: The New Adventures, TOON Books, Understanding Comics, Unflattening, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, visual literacy, Will Eisner, Written and Drawn by Henrietta
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