{"id":3503,"date":"2014-06-30T02:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T08:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2014-06-30T02:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T08:18:36","slug":"uw-green-bay-lecture-about-race-in-superhero-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/uw-green-bay-lecture-about-race-in-superhero-media\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Green Bay Lecture About Race in Superhero Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secret Identities: The Rhetoric of Race in Superhero Media\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5WmTnKgZYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was strange that the talk was done through American Intercultural Center (if I&#8217;m not mistaken). Overall, it seems as though the audience wasn&#8217;t too sophisticated about comic book or mass media culture. They seemed uninterested or a little distant. That might be a genuine problem because it implies the audience members are truly marginalized and not consuming mainstream media. You can pick that up during the Q&#038;A session where they ask questions about racial progress in the depictions in the media as if they didn&#8217;t have any control over it. It&#8217;s as simple as sitting down and drawing yourself into a superhero and publishing it, but it doesn&#8217;t seem they know that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I&#8217;ve joked before, it looks like my run at UW-Green Bay via my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastfist.com\/pentonic\">Pen Tonic<\/a> comic strip featuring Agent S as its first Asian superhero made an impact. And anyone who has those actual printed issues of The Fourth Estate are going to have somekind of keepsake increase in value.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, dear fans (not that many), Agent S will return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was strange that the talk was done through American Intercultural Center (if I&#8217;m not mistaken). Overall, it seems as though the audience wasn&#8217;t too sophisticated about comic book or mass media culture. They seemed uninterested or a little distant. That might be a genuine problem because it implies the audience members are truly marginalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[113,119,532,866,1135,1481,1888,2070,2465,2506,2732],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistic","category-pentonic","category-entertainment","tag-agent-s","tag-aic","tag-comic","tag-ethnic","tag-green-bay","tag-lecture","tag-pen-tonic","tag-race","tag-stereotypes","tag-superhero","tag-uw-green-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}