Professor of African American Studies | African American Studies
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, University Hall, 4427
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., Postgraduate Studies
2002
Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino (University Texas Press: 2015).
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (University Texas Press, 2011)
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (University Texas Press, 2008).
kpcc radio
2018-02-16
Interview about film.
WUNC radio
2018-02-14
INTERVIEW REGARDING BLACK PANTHER FILM.
CBC radio
2018-02-08
INTERVIEW REGARDING BLACK PANTHER FILM
The History Channel tv
2017-10-01
RACE AND COMICS IN AMERICA
NPR-KPCC 89.3 – Take Two radio
2016-09-30
Interview
National Public Radio radio
2012-02-14
INTERVIEW
Comic-Con San Diego, CA
2018-07-20
CLOAK AND DAGGER Conference (2014) Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
San Diego Comic Fest San Diego, California (2014)
Series, a yearlong slate of programs, collectively entitled "Kapow! Who's Your Hero?" focused on themes of power, heroes and identity, as explored through the medium of superhero comics The Cassandra Voss Center at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI "SkypeTacular! (2014)
Comic-Con San Diego, California (2014)
Graduate seminar on Diversity and Representation in Comics and Sequential Art California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California (2014)
Allendale Branch Library Event Pasadena, California (2014)
Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal (2013)
“Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands” in Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal (Palgrave: 2013), Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama
The Superhero Reader (2013)
“Color Them Black” in The Superhero Reader (University of Mississippi Press: 2013). Eds. Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worchester
The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative (2010)
“Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers” in The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative, Eds. Sandra Jackson, Julie Moody Freeman, (Routledge: December, 2010).
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic
“It was Signified: The Genesis” in Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic. Eds. Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzi (Basic Civitas: January, 2010).
African Identities
Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers
Peer reviewed journal: African Identities
Published (May, 2009).
Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Q.25.2 (2009)
R is for Race, not Rocket: Black Representation in American Science Fiction Cinema
Peer reviewed journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Q.25.2
Published (November, 2009).
Peer reviewed journal: Race and Society
More Symbol than Substance: African American Representation in Network Television (2004)
Peer reviewed journal: Race and Society p. 21-38 (6), 2004.
The Los Angeles Times (2002)
Codes of Race (Letter-to-the-Editor) (12/29/02).
Newspaper: The Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section.