2024/12/06 by Duane Ebesu · 3 voices
Social Sciences · #Intellectual Property Law
paper · doi:10.16995/cg.18185
openalex publication_date 2024/12/06 · openalex created_date 2024/12/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This review explores Jorge Santos’ Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement (University of Texas Press, 2019), which analyzes how graphic novels reframe cultural memory of the civil rights movement through visual storytelling. Santos critiques “consensus memory” for oversimplifying the movement, highlighting how comics offer counter-memory by presenting history as contested and multifaceted. The review delves into key examples, including March and Stuck Rubber Baby, emphasizing the role of visual media in disrupting linear narratives. Santos’ interdisciplinary approach enriches both comics and memory studies, urging readers to engage with diverse, ongoing struggles for social justice.