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The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes

6/27/2020

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Illustrated by DJ Kirkland

Thomas Token has been invited to enroll in the elite St. Ivory Academy of Spellcraft and Sorcery. Thanks to the Magical Minority Initiative, Tom is the first Black mage to be admitted. There, he meets Lindsey Whitethorn, and he suffers through her well-meaning questions about Black mages, such as whether he’s proud to be the first Black mage, and other micro-aggressions. She is his campus liaison, and the two become friends when Lindsey helps Tom’s crow, Jim, get healed after a skirmish with the headmaster’s son. The teachers all wear robes too alike to Klan garb, but Tom goes along in his studies until someone slips him the ID card of another Black mage. Tom’s investigations into this uncover a grizzly secret at the very core of St. Ivory’s existence.


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Incognegro by Mat Johnson

10/26/2019

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Illustrated by Warren Pleece
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This graphic novel was originally published in 2008, but had a repackaging for a 10th anniversary edition in 2018, and is even more poignant now.  The story follows this idea that Mat had from his childhood.  He is a very fair-skinned African American, and he and his friends used to joke that he would be able to go "incognegro" and pass as a white person.  Then, later in his life, Mat had twin boys - one who could pass as incognegro, and the other who couldn't.  He meshed the two ideas together, and added the historical element of Northern African American journalists traveling to the South before the Civil Rights movement, and passing for white journalists.  


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