TY - ADVS
T1 - Comics and Race in Latin America
A2 - Wade, Peter
A2 - Scorer, James
A2 - Bedoya Hidalgo, Maria Elena
A2 - Ortega Dominguez, Abeyami
A2 - Delgado Rojas, Catalina
PY - 2025/4/7
Y1 - 2025/4/7
N2 - Comics, like all cultural forms, have long had a troubled relationship to race. Racism in comics has often been very visible and very violent. In part, that is because comics frequently simplify complex social structures, environments, language, and bodies into single panels, requiring the viewer to extrapolate meaning. As a result, it has been too easy for comics to fall back on exclusionary stereotypes, not least those based on race. The violence of such racialised visualities has only been intensified by the predominantly white (and mainly male) world of comics production and consumption. Seeking out and promoting anti-racist comics, and working with a racially diverse group of artists was one of our main goals in this exhibition, which is partly the result of a collaboration between a transnational group of reseachers and artists who express and identify with different racial, gender, sexual, and class backgrounds and identities, and who speak from different positions of privilege. The artists who produced comics for the exhibition, and those who gave their authorisation to reproduce work already in existence, all come from three Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, and Peru.
AB - Comics, like all cultural forms, have long had a troubled relationship to race. Racism in comics has often been very visible and very violent. In part, that is because comics frequently simplify complex social structures, environments, language, and bodies into single panels, requiring the viewer to extrapolate meaning. As a result, it has been too easy for comics to fall back on exclusionary stereotypes, not least those based on race. The violence of such racialised visualities has only been intensified by the predominantly white (and mainly male) world of comics production and consumption. Seeking out and promoting anti-racist comics, and working with a racially diverse group of artists was one of our main goals in this exhibition, which is partly the result of a collaboration between a transnational group of reseachers and artists who express and identify with different racial, gender, sexual, and class backgrounds and identities, and who speak from different positions of privilege. The artists who produced comics for the exhibition, and those who gave their authorisation to reproduce work already in existence, all come from three Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, and Peru.
M3 - Exhibition
ER -