An Angel Just Like Me

I read this a number of times before Christmas with my daughter to talk about representation. She is a bit young for the idea, but that is the main point of this book. Representation matters. The reason that Black Panther was such an important movie is that representation matters.

Part of the backlash against books like this is that Whites do not understand how much representation matters to them until they start seeing things that are non-representational. I remember reading a review against Wonder Woman last year that was complaining about Wonder Woman being the primary hero and leaving the guys out of the action. But there was no sense of irony in the review. The author of it literally did not see how he was writing about how most women are portrayed in almost every other superhero movie.