Research on Diversity in Youth Literature Volume 3 Issue 1 Minstrelsy and Racist Appropriation Article 8 (3.1) and General Issue (3.2) April 2021 Tethered to Whiteness: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Uneven Emancipation in Jason Reynolds' Miles Morales: Spider-Man Bevin Roue Auburn University Follow this and additional works at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Language and Literacy Education Commons Recommended Citation Roue, Bevin (2021) "Tethered to Whiteness: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Uneven Emancipation in Jason Reynolds' Miles Morales: Spider-Man," Research on Diversity in Youth Literature: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 8. Available at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol3/iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by SOPHIA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research on Diversity in Youth Literature by an authorized editor of SOPHIA. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Roue: Tethered to Whiteness: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Uneven E Since the 2016 selection of Ta-Nehisi Coates to helm Marvel’s Black Panther, Marvel Comics has made the strategic and long overdue move to recruit innovative Black writers to steer their comics featuring Black characters. Other notable Black writers who have helmed Marvel titles include Nnedi Okorafor, who wrote a nine-run series on Shuri, and Roxane Gay, who penned the fantastic, though shortly lived, World of Wakanda. Though these titles all have Black protagonists, Coates’ Black Panther stands out as he is a character originally created by white writers Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.