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I am heading to Readercon next week. I just noticed that the panel list was up at http://www.readercon.org/program.htm#bookclub Way too much to do! Luckily a...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/04/DDAC11JKJ6.DTL Conflicting claims over Andre Norton's will Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press Friday,...
Fwd: First reprinting of a Jules Verne book about America Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:00:21 -0400 Some of you may be interested in this first American publication...
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Jul 8, 2008 6:47 pm
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(I love this acronym, PoC: People of Color. I write stories featuring "true, undeniable people of color": TuPoC). ~rave! ... they ... stuff,...
IN CLASS WITH HANCOCK By Biko Agozino I have just seen the box office hit movie, Hancock, with my two teenage sons and their 12 year old cousin. As usual,...
(In fanboy fashion, I wondered how, if he was an invulnerable superhero, alchohol would make him drunk?) ... . Some young black men may see the movie and...
I think Dr. Agozino is WAY off the mark on this one. Rather than perpetuating black sterotypes, HANCOCK is an afro-centric fable about why these dysfunctions...
(How is this an Afro centric fable? Are Blacks the only people who are drunks and dysfunctional? It reminded me a bit of a comment made on a discussion group...
Perhaps afro-centric fable/allegory is a better term because HANCOCK goes a little like this: A highly evolved being wakes up in a strange new world stripped...
I have to agree. The simplistic, nationalist perspective is a blunt tool and makes for very weak fiction and storytelling. Even in the comic context. ... From:...
Many story traditions have antiheros and dystopic themes. Hancock is actually more complex than most superheroes and refreshing in that complexity. ... From:...
(So state the principal of physics by which a train could hit a man and not budge him and yet his liver, circulatory system, blood, cells (which cells have...
(Nice try. But no cigar. Hancock is another version of a more recent myth No matter how much talent and power a Black Man has he will be a f**k up and will...
(Let's cut through the bramble and get down to the stump Did a black man write this movie, or a white one?) ... is actually more complex than most superheroes...
(So, you didn't like the Autobiography of Malcolm X? How about Black Boy or Native Son? How about Invisible Man? How about Beloved? Of Mules and Men? How...
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