Adilifu Nama
Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University
Media
Biography
Education
University of Southern California
Ph.D.
Postgraduate Studies
2002
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Award for Best New Publication on Popular Culture, 2009
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (University Texas Press, 2008).
Winner of the American Book Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement, 2012
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (University Texas Press, 2011)
Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino (University Texas Press: 2015).
Media Appearances
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
“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
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.
More Symbol than Substance: African American Representation in Network Television
Peer reviewed journal: Race and SocietyMore Symbol than Substance: African American Representation in Network Television (2004)
Peer reviewed journal: Race and Society p. 21-38 (6), 2004.
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).
Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers
African IdentitiesBrave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers
Peer reviewed journal: African Identities
Published (May, 2009).
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
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).
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
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
