BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3553-427951074eb3555804bef99f349e4582@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261002T071038Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T160000 SUMMARY:“Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics” with Qiana Whitted DESCRIPTION:\nThe Humanities Institute hosts an annual lecture each spri ng to celebrate and interrogate the work of the humanities. A part of th is event\, the HI Alumni Award\, will be given to a Penn State graduate who has made a significant impact in the humanities.\n\nWednesday\, Marc h 1 at 4:00 p.m. EST\n\nPenn State University Park and Livestream\n\nQia na Whitted \;is a professor in the \;Departments of \;Englis h Language and Literature and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. \;She specializes in twentieth-century African A merican literature\, cultural studies\, and American comic books. \; She is the co-chair of the International Comic Arts Forum and the editor -in-chief of \;Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Her& nbsp\;book \;EC Comics: Race\, Shock\, and Society Protest \;won the 2020 Eisner Award \;for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. She is al so the author of &ldquo\;A God of Justice?&rdquo\;: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature \;(2009) and co-editor of  \;Comics and the U.S. South \;with Brannon Costello (2012).\n\nDr. W hitted&rsquo\;s lecture will take a closer look at debates over race and blackness in American comics produced during the first half of the twen tieth century\, as the comic book industry&rsquo\;s Golden Age converged with the era of Jim Crow. While racist caricature remained central to p opular comics of the day\, this discussion makes the case for a more com plex narrative and aesthetic landscape\, one expanded by the oppositiona l reading practices of African American youth and the experimental effor ts of comics artists\, writers\, and editors to reach a wider audience. Her lecture will consider\, too\, the impact of race and difference in a ccusations about the harm that comic books caused younger consumers\, as well as the more aspirational claims about the way that this popular me dium could be used as a tool for social justice during the 1940s and 195 0s.\n\nThis event will be followed by a reception for attendees.\n\nLear n more about this event.\n\nLearn more about Qiana Whitted&rsquo\;s work .\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_qiana-whitted/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Humanities Institute hosts an annual lecture each spring to celebrate and interrogate the work of the humanities. A part of this event, the HI Alumni Award, will be given to a Penn State gradua te who has made a significant impact in the humanities.

Wednesd ay, March 1 at 4:00 p.m. EST
Penn State University Park and Livestr eam

Qiana Whitted is a professor in the Depar tments of English Language and Literature and African American Stud ies at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in twentie th-century African American literature, cultural studies, and American c omic books. She is the co-chair of the International Comic Arts For um and the editor-in-chief of Inks: The Journal of the Comics St udies Society. Her book EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Society Protest won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Aca demic/Scholarly Work. She is also the author of “A God of Justi ce?”: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Litera ture (2009) and co-editor of Comics and the U.S. South& nbsp;with Brannon Costello (2012).

Dr. Whitted’s lecture will take a closer look at debates over race and blackness in American comics produced during the first half of the twentieth century, as the c omic book industry’s Golden Age converged with the era of Jim Crow . While racist caricature remained central to popular comics of the day, this discussion makes the case for a more complex narrative and aesthet ic landscape, one expanded by the oppositional reading practices of Afri can American youth and the experimental efforts of comics artists, write rs, and editors to reach a wider audience. Her lecture will consider, to o, the impact of race and difference in accusations about the harm that comic books caused younger consumers, as well as the more aspirational c laims about the way that this popular medium could be used as a tool for social justice during the 1940s and 1950s.

This event will be followed by a reception for attendees.

Learn more about this ev ent.

Learn more about Qiana Whitted’s work.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_qiana-whitted/

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