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Summary: Black Masculinities In Comic Books

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In white scripts and black supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books was about the early representation of black male superheroes and how the structural obstacles and systemic racism effect comic in the 1960 to 1976. They discussion about characters such as Black Panther, Tyroc, john Stewart, Black Lightning and Luke Cage. The spoke analysis each characters about where they come from and what they meant to children and adult who grow up with them. It also providing primarily black youth with the opportunity to see themselves in the world of superheroes.
In the film it also explains the perpetuation of stereotypes within comic book, for example for Luke Cage he was an ex-con that broke out of jail to became a hero for hire, that wear

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