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Author: Diana Mafe

Diana Adesola Mafe is a professor of English at Denison University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial, gender and Black studies. She is the author of two books, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV and Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines. She has also published numerous articles and given a TedX talk, “Where are the Black Women in Speculative Film and Television?”
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‘Wakanda Forever’ Lifts Up Black Women—But Only So Far

Diana Mafe

Clearly, Wakanda Forever did something right, since it was the only source of nominations and the solitary triumph for Black women at the Oscars this year. Yet the film is also an ironic case study demonstrating how Black women are marginalized in the film industry.

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