Deborah Elizabeth Whaley – författare

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike. While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based teaching practices. Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom brings together creative and successful approaches to teaching across disciplines to provide an exciting resource for implementing and generating teaching practices to make our classrooms welcoming and empowering spaces, whether in person or online. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Michael Morrone, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, and Karissa Rector have collected over 40 essays to equip university and college instructors with teaching strategies, tools, materials, ideas, assignments, and more to foster engagement with as many students as possible while supporting faculty and student agency in the learning process. Gathering a diverse array of award-winning teachers from a wide range of disciplines and academic levels, Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom will prove to be an invaluable resource for evidence-based effective teaching that cultivates creativity and enhances students' opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned in the classroom and beyond.

Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic artThe 2018 release of Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the forefront. Black Women in Sequence showcases the deep history of women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly”—the first Black female superheroine in a comic book—to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art.As the first detailed investigation of Black women’s participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence, first published in 2015, examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world. This new edition features additional interviews, updates, and a new chapter on the wave of Black female characters that appeared in TV immediately before and following Black Panther’s success. An essential read for understanding the dynamics of race and gender in American comics, Black Women in Sequence demonstrates why narratives about women of African descent should and do matter to the comic book world and to writers, artists, fans, and readers.Praise for the first edition“Engaging and provocative, Black Women in Sequence is relevant not only to comic scholars, but to anyone with an interest in how difference is represented using visual rhetoric.” —Feminist Media Studies“For every little Black girl and Black woman, who imagine themselves coloring both inside and outside the lines, Black Women in Sequence literally fills in the blank spaces, highlighting the contributions of Black Women in the genres of comics, graphic novels, and anime.” —Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic artThe 2018 release of Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the forefront. Black Women in Sequence showcases the deep history of women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly”—the first Black female superheroine in a comic book—to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art.As the first detailed investigation of Black women’s participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence, first published in 2015, examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world. This new edition features additional interviews, updates, and a new chapter on the wave of Black female characters that appeared in TV immediately before and following Black Panther’s success. An essential read for understanding the dynamics of race and gender in American comics, Black Women in Sequence demonstrates why narratives about women of African descent should and do matter to the comic book world and to writers, artists, fans, and readers.Praise for the first edition“Engaging and provocative, Black Women in Sequence is relevant not only to comic scholars, but to anyone with an interest in how difference is represented using visual rhetoric.” —Feminist Media Studies“For every little Black girl and Black woman, who imagine themselves coloring both inside and outside the lines, Black Women in Sequence literally fills in the blank spaces, highlighting the contributions of Black Women in the genres of comics, graphic novels, and anime.” —Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic artThe 2018 release of Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the forefront. Black Women in Sequence showcases the deep history of women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly”—the first Black female superheroine in a comic book—to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art.As the first detailed investigation of Black women’s participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence, first published in 2015, examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world. This new edition features additional interviews, updates, and a new chapter on the wave of Black female characters that appeared in TV immediately before and following Black Panther’s success. An essential read for understanding the dynamics of race and gender in American comics, Black Women in Sequence demonstrates why narratives about women of African descent should and do matter to the comic book world and to writers, artists, fans, and readers.Praise for the first edition“Engaging and provocative, Black Women in Sequence is relevant not only to comic scholars, but to anyone with an interest in how difference is represented using visual rhetoric.” —Feminist Media Studies“For every little Black girl and Black woman, who imagine themselves coloring both inside and outside the lines, Black Women in Sequence literally fills in the blank spaces, highlighting the contributions of Black Women in the genres of comics, graphic novels, and anime.” —Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic artThe 2018 release of Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the forefront. Black Women in Sequence showcases the deep history of women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly”—the first Black female superheroine in a comic book—to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art.As the first detailed investigation of Black women’s participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence, first published in 2015, examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world. This new edition features additional interviews, updates, and a new chapter on the wave of Black female characters that appeared in TV immediately before and following Black Panther’s success. An essential read for understanding the dynamics of race and gender in American comics, Black Women in Sequence demonstrates why narratives about women of African descent should and do matter to the comic book world and to writers, artists, fans, and readers.Praise for the first edition“Engaging and provocative, Black Women in Sequence is relevant not only to comic scholars, but to anyone with an interest in how difference is represented using visual rhetoric.” —Feminist Media Studies“For every little Black girl and Black woman, who imagine themselves coloring both inside and outside the lines, Black Women in Sequence literally fills in the blank spaces, highlighting the contributions of Black Women in the genres of comics, graphic novels, and anime.” —Mark Anthony Neal, author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Women focuses on the oldest Black Greek-letter sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, established in 1908. In this innovative interdisciplinary analysis of AKA, Deborah Whaley combines ethnographic field work, archival research, oral history, and interpretive readings of popular culture and sorority rituals to examine the role of the Black sorority in women's everyday lives and more broadly within public life and politics. The study includes sorority members' stories of key cultural practices and rituals, including political participation, step dancing, pledging, hazing, and community organizing. While she remains critical of the shortcomings that plague many Black social organizations with activist programs, Whaley shows how AKA's calculated cultivation of sorority life demonstrates personal and group-directed discipline and illuminates how cultural practices intersect with politics and Black public life.