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This photoportraysan organization meeting. All of the subjects in the picture are visually engaged with something or someone outside of the frame. It is impossible totell what they are looking at.Their disengagement with the photographer suggests…

Here Joe Hallen is trying to apply for a job, but is rebuffed when he expresses that he does not see himself making a career out of managing a fast food restaurant.AfterHallen’sasserts that he is qualified for a more skilled position than…

In this first scene,Hallenencounters his sister’s boyfriend,Tremayne, when he enters his mother’s house and find’sTremaynelethargic on the couch.Tremayneappears to be an unemployed freeloader living off the work of…

Here, Joe Hallen is confronted by two members of his black community for being a sell out for enlisting in the army.Because of this rejection from his community and limited job prospects,Hallenreturns to Vietnam for his second tour of duty. This was…

In Chuck Dixon’s comic,The Nam: The Death of JoeHallen,protagonist JoeHallendefies the reality of most African American soldiers’ experience in the Vietnam War. In its initial phases, Marvel’sThe Namwas meant to be a realist…

The Cover of the 1991 "The Nam: The Death of Joe Hallen" arc, Issue No. 58

The Cover of the 1991 "The Nam: The Death of Joe Hallen" arc, Issue No. 57

The Cover of the 1991 "The Nam: The Death of Joe Hallen" arc, Issue No. 56

The Cover of the 1991 "The Nam: The Death of Joe Hallen" arc, Issue No. 55

In US culture, the media continuously portrays black men as masculine and oftentimes even hypermasculine figures. Yet within communities of black men, authorClyde Franklinobserved that “black gay men, because of their homosexuality, may not…