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Publication details [#52162]
Nama, Adilifu. 2009. Brave black worlds: black superheroes as science fiction ciphers. African Identities 7 (2) : 133–144. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper examines how black SF superheroes serve as counter-hegemonic symbolic expressions of black racial pride and advance in American culture and possibly even as futuristic transformational metaphors for perceiving black race and identity in new, challenging ways.