Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, given by the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic
Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Honorable Mention,
2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding
Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the
Popular Culture Association Winner, 2020 Charles Hatfield Book
Prize, given by the Comic Studies Society Traces the history of
racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned
this visual grammar on its head Revealing the long aesthetic
tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of
racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo
demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual
imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive
and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used
caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the
United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from
such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to
recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art
contributes to a common language of both national belonging and
exclusion in the United States. Historically, white artists have
rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American
identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded
from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich
illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions,
Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry
Fuller, Richard "Grass" Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Crute,
Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman,
all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of
caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to
understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence
American identity itself, has been constructed.
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