Comics as code-switching in Tales from the Barrio Racial reckoning through comics

Streaming video - 2023

José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle This seminar brings diverse individuals, institutions, and organizations together to critically explore the overarching theme of “Racial Reckoning through Comics,” through a series of events designed to address racial and ethnic representation in global popular culture as both a historical legacy and ongoing concern, with the latter emphasis allowing us to explore and celebrate the vital work of diverse contemporary creators from around the world who are revising past injustices to make emphatically anti-racist comics. Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation, Iowa C...ity Public Library, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and FilmScene. more