Table of Contents
Preface
Zeinabu irene Davis
Chapter 1: I Dream a World: Black Panther and the Re-Making of Blackness
Renée T. White
Chapter 2: The Power in Numbers: Ensemble Stunt Performance in Black Panther and Histories of Practice
Lauren Steiner
Chapter 3: From Expressivity to Equanimity: New Black Action in Black Panther
Wayne Wong
Chapter 4: Paid the Cost to be the Boss: Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther, and the Future of the Black Biopic
Mikal J. Gaines
Chapter 5: Let Ayo Have a Girlfriend: Resisting Black Lesbian Erasure on Twitter
Sarah E. S. Sinwell
Chapter 6: “Tell Me a Story Baba”: Black Panther and Wakanda’s Foreign Policy in the Age of Neo-liberalism
Clarence Lusane
Chapter 7: The Underground Railroads as Afrofuturism: Enslaved Blacks that Imagined Freedom, Future, and Space
dann j. Broyld
Chapter 8: The Evolution of Dora Milaje: Wakanda’s Greatest Warriors in Comics and Film
Josh Truelove
Chapter 9: “The Prince Will Now Have the Strength of the Black Panther Stripped Away”: Reading Disability and Queerness in Killmonger
Dominique Young
Chapter 10: Only When She Wants To: Code-Switching in Black Panther
Paul Moffett
Chapter 11: The Dore Milaje in Real Life: A Continuing Legacy of African Warriors
Myron T. Strong, K. Sean Chaplin, and Giselle Greenidge
Chapter 12: Echoes of the History of Black Utopian Visions, “Black Manhood,” and Black Feminism in the Making of Black Panther
Dolita Cathcart
Chapter 13: Tradition, Purpose, and Technology: An Archaeological Take on the Role of Technological Progress in Black Panther
Shayla Monroe
Chapter 14: Reflections on Black Panther and the Traditions of Third Cinema
Cynthia Baron
Chapter 15: The Depiction of Homeschooling, Black Identity, and Political Thought in the Film Black Panther
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman
Chapter 16: Two Paths to the Future: Radical Cosmopolitanism and Counter-Colonial Dignity in Black Panther
Neal Curtis
Chapter 17: My Blood Right: A Critical Analysis of Black Panther’s Killmonger, Colonialism, and Hybrid Identity
Gabriel A. Cruz
Chapter 18: The Other Worlds of Black Panther’s Purple Heart-Shaped Herb
Paul Karolczyk
About the Contibutors