Remarkable Receptions
A podcast about popular and critical responses to African American novels, artistic productions, and more.
Remarkable Receptions
Latest Episodes
The Case for Coates as a Comic Book Writer -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A brief take on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s move into Marvel Comics, highlighting how his Black Panther run bridges African American literary continuums and comic storytelling while expanding the scope of Black artistic production across forms....
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A brief take on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s entry into comics, examining how his rise to prominence with Black Panther highlights the double-edged nature of representation—simultaneously expanding visibility while reinforcing disparities ...
Star Wars for Black People -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A brief take on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, tracing how “Star Wars for Black people” becomes a framework for merging Afrofuturism, slave narrative traditions, and large-scale Black representation in comics. ...
Rumors of Scipio Moorhead -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A brief take on Phillis Wheatley’s tribute to Scipio Moorhead, interpreting surviving poem and portrait as fragmentary “rumors” of early Black artistic collaboration in eighteenth-century America. Written by Howard Rambsy IIRead...
Painting the Enslaved as Liberated -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A brief take on Kerry James Marshall’s portraits of John Punch, Scipio Moorhead, and Harriet Tubman, reimagining enslaved figures as liberated subjects through contemporary Black artistic interpretation. Written by Howard Rambsy II<...