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Topical Term
African American superheroes
Use for
Superheroes, African American
See also
Superheroes
Found in
Work cat: Nama, A. Super black : American pop culture and black superheroes, 2011: p.69 (the Falcon was "the first African American superhero")
Davenport, C. Black is the color of my comic book character : African-American superheroes from 1970-1994, [1994]
The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art, 2015 (summary: "It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged")
Saalfeld, J. Black superpower : African and African American superheroes in U.S. mainstream comic books, 2013
Ali, L. Must reads : from "Black Panther" to "Luke Cage", black superheroes are breaking barriers once considered impenetrable, Jul. 13, 2018, via LA Times website, viewed Sep. 9, 2019 ("2018 has seen more African American superheroes in their own namesake productions run, leap and fly to the forefront of pop culture than any other time in history")
Black superheroes : the most famous African-American superheroes in film, TV and comic books, Apr. 4, 2013, via BET website, viewed Sep. 9, 2019 (list includes Black Lightning, Cyborg, Green Lantern John Stewart, Steel and 16 others)
R.I.P. Dwayne McDuffie, Feb. 22, 2011, via Museum of Black Superheroes website, viewed Sep. 10, 2019 (African-American comic and television author Dwayne McDuffie "did a great deal to put forward the notion that African American superheroes could be marketable")
Freedom! 40 African-American superheroes for Juneteenth, Jun. 19, 2019, via World of Black Heroes website, viewed Sep. 10, 2019
Davenport, C. Black is the color of my comic book character : African-American superheroes from 1970-1994, [1994]
The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art, 2015 (summary: "It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged")
Saalfeld, J. Black superpower : African and African American superheroes in U.S. mainstream comic books, 2013
Ali, L. Must reads : from "Black Panther" to "Luke Cage", black superheroes are breaking barriers once considered impenetrable, Jul. 13, 2018, via LA Times website, viewed Sep. 9, 2019 ("2018 has seen more African American superheroes in their own namesake productions run, leap and fly to the forefront of pop culture than any other time in history")
Black superheroes : the most famous African-American superheroes in film, TV and comic books, Apr. 4, 2013, via BET website, viewed Sep. 9, 2019 (list includes Black Lightning, Cyborg, Green Lantern John Stewart, Steel and 16 others)
R.I.P. Dwayne McDuffie, Feb. 22, 2011, via Museum of Black Superheroes website, viewed Sep. 10, 2019 (African-American comic and television author Dwayne McDuffie "did a great deal to put forward the notion that African American superheroes could be marketable")
Freedom! 40 African-American superheroes for Juneteenth, Jun. 19, 2019, via World of Black Heroes website, viewed Sep. 10, 2019
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