Scott said he appreciates his colleagues in his department and others. Thereafter, he earned his doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford, teaching at the University of Texas at Austin and UC Santa Barbara before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley. He decided to study more African American literature than he had as an undergrad biology major, and ultimately earned a master’s in African American Studies at Yale, along with his law degree. Expecting throughout his undergraduate years that he would become an attorney, Scott entered Yale Law School, realizing in his very first semester that he hated it. He’s lived in the Bay Area for most of the past three decades and now resides in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley.Īfter finishing high school, Scott attended Stanford. But they just sparked imagination for me in a way that I needed to have it sparked in order to navigate all these differences that I was encountering as a little kid in this really different environment.” It seems ironic and maybe counter-intuitive, because comics obviously are not giving you the real world. Scott said that reading comics as a child “was a way for me to make sense of the radically changed world I was living in. For the younger Scott, comics provided a welcome refuge from a tumultuous time when his family was continually on the move. The volume also contains a long chapter about erotic fantasy art, with sample illustrations, and is not intended for young readers.Ī self-described “Army brat,” Scott resided in various places his father was stationed, like Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and Europe. The book contains a lengthy discussion of Nubia and her impact on Scott and the comics medium, along with ground-breaking Black male characters such as Luke Cage and Black Panther. was just very glamorous and beautiful and powerful, and the combination of those things was electrifying for me.”Ī UC Berkeley Professor of African American Studies, Scott is the author of Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, out this month from New York University Press. “That first glimpse of Nubia caught my attention,” Scott said, “because I was becoming aware of my own Blackness and how that was signifying in the mostly white world in which I was existing in Germany. The caption: “Under Mars’ brainwashing – Wonder Woman finally meets her sister Nubia – in a battle to the death!” On the cover of the comic are two beautiful women – one Black, one white, one outfitted in leopard prints, the other in a patriotic red-white-and-blue skirt, both shackled together and each brandishing a sword. It shaped his imaginative life as a young child of a military officer, and it continues to inspire his academic work today.
206 from an American bookstore in Germany.
In 1973, when Scott was 8 or 9, he purchased Wonder Woman issue No. You probably don’t remember Wonder Woman’s Black twin sister, Nubia.
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