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Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times
Asian American History
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Desegregating Comics
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. It examines not only the racial stereotypes that predominated, but also the innovations of black comics artists and the activism of black fans.