{"id":44317,"date":"2015-11-28T19:06:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44317"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:44:29","slug":"incognegro-a-graphic-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44317","title":{"rendered":"Incognegro, A Graphic Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incognegro, A Graphic Mystery<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Vertigo<\/a>
\n2008
\n136 pages
\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-140121097<\/p>\n

Mat Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, Author<\/p>\n

Warren Pleece<\/a><\/strong>, Artist<\/p>\n

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Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail by Warren Pleece (The Invisibles<\/em>, Hellblazer<\/em>). In the early 20th century, when lynchings<\/a> were commonplace throughout the American South<\/a>, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could pass for white<\/a>. They called this dangerous assignment going “incognegro.” Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald<\/em>, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi<\/a>. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay “incognegro” long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother \u2014 and himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incognegro, A Graphic Mystery Vertigo 2008 136 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-140121097 Mat Johnson, Author Warren Pleece, Artist Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[2355,22091,22088],"class_list":["post-44317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-mat-johnson","tag-vertigo","tag-warren-pleece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44318,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44317\/revisions\/44318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}