Date of Award
5-9-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
African-American Studies
First Advisor
Makungu Akinyela
Second Advisor
Sarita Davis
Third Advisor
WIllie Tolliver
Abstract
This study explores controlling images as essential to the representation of black women’s lives within the media, especially the comic book character, Storm from the X-Men series. The researcher uses content analysis to examine the graphic images, text and dialogue of the comic books chosen for this study. Furthermore, the researcher juxtaposes Storm to the main controlling images that Patricia Hill Collins discusses in her seminal work, Black Feminist Thought, but also to expand this discussion to include the stereotype of the Magical Negro.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/7048642
Recommended Citation
Burke, Chesya, "Hero Me Not: Mammy, Magical Negro and the Constructed Containment of Storm from the X-Men." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/7048642
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