CURRENT ISSUE

 

Volume 11 • Number 9 • August 2018

 

 

Introduction

● On Coogler and Cole’s Black Panther Film (2018): Global Perspectives, Reflections and Contexts for Educators
by guest editors Marsha R. Robinson and Caryn Neumann
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● Black Panther and the Problem of the Black Radical
by Dikeledi A. Mokoena
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History and Theory

● If You Can See It, You Can Be It: Black Panther’s Black Woman Magic
by Marlene D. Allen
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● To Whom Does Wakanda Belong?
by Makeba Lavan
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● Three Theses about Black Panther
by Délice Williams
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● Afro-Caribbean Reflections on the Film Black Panther: Imagining Superheroes in the Nation-Building Process of Curaçao
by Florencia V. Cornet
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● Echoes of Pan Africanism in Black Panther
by Rosemary A. Onyango
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● Can the Migrant Speak: Ethnic Accents in Black Panther and the Quadruple Consciousness of African Immigrants in the United States
by Peter Ndaita
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● ‘I Remember You Was Conflicted’: Reflections on Black Panther, the African American/African Divide, and Scholarly Positionings
by Robert LaRue
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● If You’re (Concerned About) White You’re Alt-Right: Racialized Conservative Responses to Black Panther
by Derek Charles Catsam
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Influences

● The Death of Wakanda: The Impact of Chattel Slavery on the Advancement of the Descendants of the African Enslaved
by Bennie W. Baker
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● Africana Religion, Black Panther, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
by Torin Dru Alexander
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● It’s Not Magic: The Black Body as an Aesthetic Site and Sight
by Wilson Kwamogi Okello
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● To the Ancestral Plane: African Spiritism in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (Marvel Studios, 2018) and the Desensitization to Spiritualism in Hollywood
by Lleuella Morris
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Identity and Community

● Black Panther: A Black Girl’s Song
by Phyllisa Smith Deroze
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● Belonging: The Struggle of Two Worlds and Identity
by Diana Forry
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● What Is This Brown Cotton-Skinned Ragdoll Crumpled Behind a Lamp?
by Raquel Baker
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● Combat, Couture, and Caribbeana: Cultural Process in Coogler’s Black Panther (2018)
by D. E. Wynter
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● Black Panther as Afro-complementary Cinematic Intervention: Lessons for Africa South of the Sahara African Movie Industries
by Ayodeji Boluwatife Aiyesimoju
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