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Adilifu Nama - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

Adilifu Nama

Professor of African American Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Dr. Adilifu Nama is a Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

Education (1)

University of Southern California: Ph.D., Postgraduate Studies 2002

Areas of Expertise (9)

Black Representation in Film and Television

afrofuturism

SciFi Film

Prince

comics

Film

Race

American Pop Culture

Astro-Blackness

Accomplishments (3)

Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (professional)

Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino (University Texas Press: 2015).

Winner of the American Book Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement, 2012 (professional)

Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (University Texas Press, 2011)

Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Award for Best New Publication on Popular Culture, 2009 (professional)

Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (University Texas Press, 2008).

Media Appearances (6)

Dissecting ‘Black Panther’ with the guy who literally wrote the book on black superheroes

kpcc  radio

2018-02-16

Interview about film.

'Black Panther': The Movie, The Madness, The Movement --

WUNC  radio

2018-02-14

INTERVIEW REGARDING BLACK PANTHER FILM.

Black Panther puts black lives on screen “The Current”

CBC  radio

2018-02-08

INTERVIEW REGARDING BLACK PANTHER FILM

Super Heroes Decoded: American Rebels, Television Series/Documentary

The History Channel  tv

2017-10-01

RACE AND COMICS IN AMERICA

“Marvel's Luke Cage and the cultural significance of a bulletproof black man”

NPR-KPCC 89.3 – Take Two  radio

2016-09-30

Interview

“Comic books come of age – the depiction of race in graphic novels” |

National Public Radio  radio

2012-02-14

INTERVIEW

Event Appearances (7)

“Afro-Futurism: Black to the Future!”

Comic-Con  San Diego, CA

2018-07-20

Invited Panelist, Afrofuturism

CLOAK AND DAGGER Conference (2014)  Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society

Invited Panelist, Afrofuturism

San Diego Comic Fest  San Diego, California (2014)

Invited Speaker

Series, a yearlong slate of programs, collectively entitled "Kapow! Who's Your Hero?" focused on themes of power, heroes and identity, as explored through the medium of superhero comics  The Cassandra Voss Center at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI "SkypeTacular! (2014)

Invited Panelist, Black Masculinities in Comic Books

Comic-Con  San Diego, California (2014)

Invited Presenter

Graduate seminar on Diversity and Representation in Comics and Sequential Art  California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California (2014)

Invited Speaker, The Sun Ra Centennial: A Different Order of Being

Allendale Branch Library Event  Pasadena, California (2014)

Articles (8)

Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands (Book)

Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal (2013)

“Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands” in Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal (Palgrave: 2013), Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama

Color Them Black

The Superhero Reader (2013)

“Color Them Black” in The Superhero Reader (University of Mississippi Press: 2013). Eds. Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worchester

Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers

The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative (2010)

“Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers” in The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative, Eds. Sandra Jackson, Julie Moody Freeman, (Routledge: December, 2010).

It was Signified: The Genesis

Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic

“It was Signified: The Genesis” in Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic. Eds. Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzi (Basic Civitas: January, 2010).

Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers

African Identities

Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers Peer reviewed journal: African Identities Published (May, 2009).

R is for Race, not Rocket: Black Representation in American Science Fiction Cinema

Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Q.25.2 (2009)

R is for Race, not Rocket: Black Representation in American Science Fiction Cinema Peer reviewed journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Q.25.2 Published (November, 2009).

More Symbol than Substance: African American Representation in Network Television

Peer reviewed journal: Race and Society

More Symbol than Substance: African American Representation in Network Television (2004) Peer reviewed journal: Race and Society p. 21-38 (6), 2004.

Codes of Race (Letter-to-the-Editor)

The Los Angeles Times (2002)

Codes of Race (Letter-to-the-Editor) (12/29/02). Newspaper: The Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section.