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Sound and Silence in the Jim Crow South

Sound and Silence in the Jim Crow South

Representations of music in Jeremy Love’s Bayou, Paolo Parisi’s Coltrane and Long/Demonakos’ The Silence of Our Friends

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Quentin Tarantino’s Slave on the Road; or, Josiah Henson Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s Slave on the Road; or, Josiah Henson Unchained

Moral slaves and dangerous slaves

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What Can Cigarettes Teach Us About Comics?

What Can Cigarettes Teach Us About Comics?

Cigarette warning labels and legislating images.

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The New Negro As Comic Book Artist

The New Negro As Comic Book Artist

Literary expressions of African American experience have always been deeply entrenched in the realm of social perception, spectacle, and visibility.

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Blues Comics

Blues Comics

But can a comic fare any better? Does the form’s interplay of verbal and visual elements provide a more dynamic set of tools for representing blues music and culture?

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