by Victoria James The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, by David Lester and Marcus Rediker with an Afterword by Paul Buhle, is a striking graphic retelling of a significant moment of collective resistance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Adapted from Rediker’s historical study The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, this graphic novel brings the 1839 uprising into vivid focus, restoring the fifty‑three enslaved African people onboard La Amistad to the center of their own narrative. By situating the graphic novel within a “history-from-below” (p. 117, Afterword) framework, the authors successfully challenge the… Read More
U S Healthcare System – Reality vs Reform
Author’s website: 1. https://www.cartoonstudies.org/ ; 2. https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj ; 3. https://www.populareconomics.org/ Where to buy: 1. www.cartoonstudies.org/healthcare ; 2&3. https://bookshop.org/shop/graphicmedicine Book Review by Kevin Wolf I’m going to be geeking out a bunch in this book review. The topic covered, the United States’ healthcare system (USHCS), overlaps a lot with my professional life as a health actuary. I’m sorry if you find this review a bit statistics-heavy, but I can’t address the U.S. system without such information. This graphic medicine triple-book review will be time traveling backwards from today to the early 2000s. In 2019, the most recent with data… Read More