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Undergraduate
Research
Symposium
2022

Mercedes Garcia

McKay Keith

A Sci-Fi Exploration of Discrimination: Nnedi Okorafor’s LaGuardia

This presentation analyzes Nnedi Okorafor’s modern sci-fi comic, La Guardia, which aims to humanize an interstellar story. Okorafor and artist Tana Ford showcase harrowing truths of discrimination using narrative and visual elements with the goal of telling a relevant, lived experience.