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Wayward Travels: Racial Uplift, Black Women, and the Pursuit of Love and Travel in Torchy in Heartbeats by Jackie Ormes

Ayanna Dozier
Journal: Feminist Media Histories
Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (3): 12–29.
https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.3.12
Published: 01 July 2018
... narrative structure to creatively depict a single Black woman freely traveling the world in the era of Jim Crow. This essay examines two specific Torchy in Heartbeats strips from 1951–52 to reveal how Ormes worked within the then-dominant framework of respectability politics—not to challenge...
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