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Article: Trauma, politics and heroes: a new comic book paints kids of color as superheroes with powers from Islamic knowledge.(CULTURE)(The 99)
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- Colorlines Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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I'M BIASED AGAINST COMIC BOOKS. I have refused to read them ever since I walked into the comic book store in my little hometown in New Jersey and saw page after page of white men with superpowers and tiny black eyes aiming fire at each other. I probably just looked at a few books, but it was enough to bias my 9-year-old mind against them for the next two decades. Comics, I decided, were nothing but a genre about superheroes for white boys.
The Boondocks changed my mind about comics, sort of. Aaron McGruder's Black and biracial kids talked about politics, race and parents the way my friends and I did--uncensored. I enjoyed it but then decided that it wasn't a real ...