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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2014-08-29 13:24:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2014-08-29 13:24:00

Mood: busy

Jack Kirby's Diversity

Here's a lovely look at several of Jack Kirby's characters of diversity, made with Stan Lee but these are ones primarily driven by Jack.

Note that Ben Grimm is a double-tap for being Jewish and lower/working class. As the Thing, he is also a man of color -- even though color-changed characters may have grown up white, they pick up the chromatic stigma of not being white anymore and it really shows in how people treat them. Also worth considering is the way that Jack characterized Ben as Jewish for years before it was safe to come right out and say that. Sometimes I tag the ethnicity or religion of my characters openly, but often it's just there in the name, location, physical description, etc.

I always liked the technological aspect of Black Panther, which so often gets overlooked. After having discovered Odinani, the sacred science of Nigeria, I kind of wonder if that played in.

Tags: art, entertainment, ethnic studies, networking, reading, spirituality, writing

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Black Panther is one of the few superheroes I would actually want to MEET. He always seemed like a very pragmatic, decent guy.

I don't know if you ever saw the Black Panther miniseries; it was never released in the US because uh... because the series has some very cutting things to say about US military tactics and behavior towards other countries. But it very much plays on the science in Wakanda, and it's totally worth a watch.