Black Characters in Japanese Anime and Manga 3.0 UNITS

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This course will provide an Afrocentric examination into the presence of Black characters in Japanese anime and manga. Through the exploration of the evolution of the global Black ethnic-cultural image, consciousness, narrative, personality, and agency, this course will explore and center the experiences of African descendent characters in popular Japanese literary and visual mediums. The intersections between African people featured in comic books, graphic novels, video games, cartoons and other popular media and literary mediums will also be explored in relation to Japanese anime and manga.