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Hero Me Not: Mammy, Magical Negro and the Constructed Containment of Storm from the X-Men

This study explores controlling images as essential to the representation of black women’s lives within the media, especially the comic book character, Storm from the X-Men series. The researcher uses content analysis to examine the graphic images, text and dialogue of the comic books chosen for this study. Furthermore, the researcher juxtaposes Storm to the main controlling images that Patricia Hill Collins discusses in her seminal work, Black Feminist Thought, but also to expand this discussion to include the stereotype of the Magical Negro.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:scholarworks.gsu.edu:aas_theses-1031
Date09 May 2015
CreatorsBurke, Chesya
PublisherScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceAfrican-American Studies Theses

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