TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wanzo,Rebecca
TI  - The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging 
T2  - Postmillennial Pop
SN  - 9781479840083
U1  - 305.800973022/2 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Aaron McGruder;African American Art;African American cartoonists;African American children;African American Soldiers;African Americans;Black Aesthetics;Black Body;black liberation;black masculinity;Black Panther;Black superheroes
KW  - Brumsic Brandon Jr
KW  - Captain America
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Civil Rights Movement
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Editorial cartoons
KW  - Hermeneutic
KW  - Ho Che Anderson
KW  - Icon
KW  - Jennifer Cruté
KW  - Kyle Baker
KW  - Larry Fuller
KW  - Martin Luther King Jr
KW  - Nat Turner
KW  - Ollie Harrington
KW  - R Crumb
KW  - Richard Grass Green
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Thomas Nast
KW  - U.S. comics
KW  - Violence
KW  - World War II
KW  - equal opportunity humor
KW  - infantile citizenship
KW  - offensive humor
KW  - racial melancholia
KW  - stereotype
KW  - underground comix
KW  - visual culture
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aaron McGruder
KW  - African American Art
KW  - African American Soldiers
KW  - African American cartoonists
KW  - African American children
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Black Aesthetics
KW  - Black Body
KW  - Black Panther
KW  - Black superheroes
KW  - Comics
KW  - black liberation
KW  - black masculinity
KW  - citizenship
KW  - editorial cartoons
KW  - slavery
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its headRevealing 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479813636
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479813636/original
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