"Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value—and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity—in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts. Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

Ooh - maʀtha

*adding to wish list - Anne Graham

*ordering for library* - maʀtha

Luke Cage was awesome. The current issue of Fantastic Four (which I haven't yet read) has Black Panther on the cover. - bevedog

Per the U.S. census, 13.1% of people in the U.S. are black, as of 2011 (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd...). I wonder what percent the list of black superheroes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is compared to all superheroes. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess it's far less than 13%. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Oh yeah...BIG Luke Cage fan here...my daughter *loves* Storm! - Harold Cabezas

Also loved Black Panther....African American and Latino characters were few and far between but THEY ROCKED!! ::)) - Harold Cabezas

Fantagraphics also has "Black Images in Comics" http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-... - bevedog

And Fantagraphics is having a 20% off sale RIGHT NOW. - Spidra Webster

Storm, Vixen, Icon, Static, Bishop, Misty Knight, Cyborg fan---> - CarlC, spelling expert from Android

Frank Miller's Martha Washington comics were awesome too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Adrian

I have a nearly complete run of Static, a half complete run on Icon, and now I feel silly that I didn't also collect Hardware and the other Milestone titles. - Andrew C (✓)

I had a bunch of Milestone stuff and had to sell it when I moved. :( - Spidra Webster