Sat April 18, 2015
Tell Me More: Scholarly Voices Across the African Diaspora with Dr. Darieck B. Scott
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Dr. Darieck Scott discusses the monstrous and sexual dimensions of black male imagery in superhero comics, focusing on the character “Blade.” He will discuss how comic book male superheroes’ extreme hyper-masculinity becomes uncomfortably exaggerated when the superhero is a black male, a figure already over determined in Western cultures as an exemplar of extreme, out of control physicality.
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Dr. Darieck Scott discusses the monstrous and sexual dimensions of black male imagery in superhero comics, focusing on the character “Blade.” He will discuss how comic book male superheroes’ extreme hyper-masculinity becomes uncomfortably exaggerated when the superhero is a black male, a figure already over determined in Western cultures as an exemplar of extreme, out of control physicality.
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Museum of the African Diaspora - MOAD
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