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BLADE and the Foundations of Marvel Superhero's Movie Empire superhero movies MCU Marvel Blade Black Superheroes Black Panther Curator's Note Way back in 2009, when I started writing my doctoral dissertation on superhero movies and post-9/11 Ame ...
Scholar-activists and the vulnerabilities of social media "All I want for Christmas is white genocide." Last December, this satirical tweet from political theory scholar and radical activist George Ciccariello-Maher made headlines after it w ...
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