Literature

Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”The book is arguably one of today’s most essential primers on racism and its foundation of white supremacy.

“Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse’s” hidden diversity lives both on- and offscreen. When a production has a diverse cast and crew, the content created is much more likely to represent diverse groups of people. Both in the cast and in production, […]

Kara Walker is among one of the most prolific and complex American artists of her generation. She has gained national and international attention for her various works of art, and the variety of multi media she uses to create her […]

Black Panther is not the first black character printed on paper, but he certainly has a lively journey, full of ruling Wakanda, saving the Marvel multiverse and early writer’s problematic beginnings. In this article, we analyze the history of black and African American people in comic books and address the importance of nuance in storytelling.

Alright, it’s time to confess something I feel is a little embarrassing. If young adults today remember living near a library or bookstore, chances are you have come across a manga aisle. I was one of those white adolescent geeks […]

Persepolis is a autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian-French cartoonist. It tells the tale of Marji, a young girl living in Tehran just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This accounts her life before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution, where she lives through threats to her wellbeing and xenophobia.

Monstress is an epic fantasy graphic novel written by Marjorie Liu telling the tale of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage girl sharing a psychic link to a power monster who occasionally emerges from the stub of her severed left arm. Inspired by early 20th century Asia, Monstress is set in a matriarchal world split into factions, where war for power and greed set the stage for our heroine to avenge her fallen mother.

With great power comes great responsibility, and America Chavez is no exception to that rule. Coming from the far reaches of the Marvel multiverse, this superheroine blasts through time and space to save the day, all the while keeping her special charm and wits in battle.