Why are all the brown superheroes so… whiny?: A Doubled-Double-Consciousness
Mike Mena, Brooklyn College Why are all my favorite black and brown heroes so… insecure. They whine. They cry. They question every decision they make. They always ask…
Mike Mena, Brooklyn College Why are all my favorite black and brown heroes so… insecure. They whine. They cry. They question every decision they make. They always ask…
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Miranda Sheild Johansson is an academic at UCL anthropology who has just published a book with Cambridge University Press and was asked to sign a new generative licensing…
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The Silent Knight: Ideologies of Languagelessness in BATGIRL (2000-2006) by Mike Mena Why study comics? Simple: they reflect and refract ideologies present in everyday life. Comics are a…
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I wish I could say the 99th page of my dissertation was somehow at least partiallyilluminating about what I tried to say with my doctoral research, but alas.…
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My dissertation investigates the semiotics and politics of contemporary (Yucatec) Maya-language media in the Mexican Yucatán.* Page 99 appears in chapter two, which examines how announcers at a…
When offered the chance to take the page 99 test, I imagined that page 99 of mydissertation would have little to do with its core purpose—using anthropology as…
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