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Superman's Lois Lane: I Am Curious (Black)! 2 (1970)
In this group of panels fromSuperman’s GirlfriendLois Lane: I Am Curious (Black),Lois Lane’s transformation to a black woman and her experiences emphasize the idea of the Otherness of blackness. Here, the reader sees Lois as black after…
Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane: I Am Curious (Black)! 1 (1970)
In this large panel on page 3 ofSuperman’sLois Lane: I Am Curious (Black),Lois is depicted contemplating the consistent rejection she receives from the black citizens of Metropolis when she tries to interview them for her newspaper story on…
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973)
The middle page of the promotional material forThe Spook Who Sat By the Doorshows a collage of chaos and action. In the forefront one can see a masked man holding down another man’s arm in a fight, a man next to him with a gun, and behind…
Imitation of Life
Imitation of Lifeis a Hollywood film adaptation of the 1933 novel,Imitation of Life, by St. Louisan Fannie Hurst. The first film adaptation, released in 1934, was black-and-white, and a second color adaptation was released in 1959. Fannie Hurst, a…
The Story of Little Babaji (2002)
TheStory of Little Black Sambois rooted in intense racialized stereotypes of black people and black children in particular. Originally published by Helen Bannerman in the late 19thcentury, the story displays discriminatory pickaninny caricatures…
The Story of Little Babaji (2002)
Furthermore, this version ofLittle Black Samborejects the dehumanization and animalization that appear in many earlier versions. In the illustration with the four tigers,Babajistands small behind a tree. The tigers are twice or three…
Little Black Sambo, Japanese Version (1997)
The imageofthe tigerssitting in a circlebeside a tree, each with a piece of Sambo’s clothing, represents many of the cultural representations of black people.Though the dehumanization of the black “other” began centuries ago,…