Useful Quotes
Malcolm Spellman (Falcon and the Winter Soldier Show-runner): “[Blackness] is a concentrated version of the great human struggle.”
Stuart Hall: “approaches to popular culture and Blackness [are] incomplete if only focusing on the negative critiques of the way dominant narratives facilitate racial marginalisation because creativity has also thrived in conditions of subordination” [Sorrow songs, breakdancing, rap]
Rey Chow & Crystal Parikh: “Minority subjects must often distance themselves from the normative standards of belonging ... to make their distinct voices heard.”
Andre M. Carrington: “The crossover complicates the way audience members relate to a text because it positions them in new, blended interpretive communities.”
Thulani Davis: “The future may be bleak, but it’s not Black.” in ‘The Whiteness of Science Fiction’
bell hooks pointed to the need to ‘demand for a transformation rather than a shared ideal’ as an instrumental part of Black feminist critique.
Adilifu Nama ”Sam Wilson’s wings are a gift from the Black Panther — a result of Wakandan technology” As Nama writes, “By possessing the most venerated powers in the superhero universe, the Falcon’s flight symbolised Black social and economic upward mobility that was right in line with real world changes.”
Reading List
Adilifu Nama- 2011 - Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes [Book]
Andre M. Carrington - 2016 - Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction [Book]
Clare Napier - 2015 - Sequential Sartorial: Fetishists, Unlike Emma Frost, Understand Occasion [Article]
John Rieder - 2011 - Race and revenge fantasies in Avatar, District 9 and Inglourious Basterds [Essay]
Jorge Serrano - 2023 - Black Panther: Wakandan ‘Civitas’ and Panthering Futurity [Book]
Kyle Buchanan - 2016 - Why Won’t Hollywood Let Us See Our Best Black Actors? [Article]
Kwame Ture (Previously known as Stokley Carmichael) - 1966 - ‘Black Power’ [Speech]
Miriam Kent - 2021 - Black Skin, Blue Skin: Race and Femininity in Marvel Films [Book]
Stephanie Williams & Vita Ayala - 2022 - Nubia & The Amazons [Comic]
Suzanne M. Stauffer - 2013 - Taking a Dip in the Crazy Pool: The Evolution of X-Women From Heroic Subject to Sexual Object [Article]
Terence McSweeney - 2021 - Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon [Book]
Veronica Chambers - When Blackness is a Superpower - 2021 - [Article]
House of X/Powers of X - 2019 - Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz [Comic]
Uncanny X-Men - 1975 - Chris Claremont, Various Artists. [Comic]
Watch List
Dominique Jackson, My Truth, My Story - 2015 - My TRUTH, My STORY - Dominique Jackson [Youtube]
X-Men: The Animated Series - 1992 - [Television]
Justice League - 2001 - [Television]
Luke Cage - 2016 - [Television]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 2022 - [Film]
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom - 2023 - [Film]
Edge of Tomorrow - 2014 - [Film]
Insecure - 2016 - [Television]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - 2022 - [Television]
Star Trek: The Original Series - 1966 - [Television]
Queen Sugar - 2016 - [Television]
The Other Black Girl - 2023 - [Television]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 2018 - [Film]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 2023 - [Film]
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - 2021 - [Television]
Podcast List
XofWords - Can a Black character be considered as such without a Black writer? (Ft. @GL2814_3) - 2023 [Podcast]
Playlist
Keep Us Connected - Celia Rose Gooding (as Nyota Uhura in Strange New Worlds [episode ‘Subspace Rhapsody’]
Return of the Mac - Mark Morrison
Clips
Angela Basset as Queen Ramonda (in Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever)
Mike Colter as Luke Cage (in Luke Cage [Netflix])
Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura (in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
Phil LaMarr as John Stewart/Green Lantern (in Justice League)
Alison Sealy-Smith as Ororo Monroe in X-Men The Animated Series
Podcast Themes
. ‘Blanc Telepath’ by Pampered Fists (Joe Davin)
‘You’re My Friend’ by Anzahlung
‘Too Famous’ by Anzahlung
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Podcast Artwork by Valentine M. Smith.