Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University): "Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black Counterpublics". Introduced by Uche Anomnachi (University of Iowa)

Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation, Iowa City Public Library, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and FilmScene.

To continue our year-long Mellon Sawyer Seminar devoted to “Racial Reckoning Through Comics,” we turn to critical and creative approaches to representing historical as well as potential futures of racial trauma, testimony, possibility, and expanded narrative. How have comics neglected as well as addressed racialized histories or imagined racialized futures?