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.
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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