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Comics In The Class Room – Symmetry And Future Race Relations

A professor at Florida Gulf Coast University has assigned the first volume of the Top Cow series Symmetry to his sociology classes for a discussion on race relations in the future. Science fiction has always been a medium that could broach subjects like racial inequality and class systems

Similar to the way Gene Roddenberry tackled some of the social issues of the late 60's with Star Trek. Sometimes it's easier to make people look at racism if it's framed as an alien race divided by which half of your face is black and which half is white.

Matt Hawkins, the writer of the series, had this to say about it:

I spent a ton of time talking to psychologists about what it would take to create a world with no aggression or violence. From my research it would require eliminating diversity, ambition and creativity. Sounds bland I know, but it's an interesting exercise and amazing for storytelling opportunities. Symmetry is an interesting Utopian future that gets broken, which results in some fantastic drama for the lead characters.

The sixth issue of the series by Hawkins and Raffaele Ienco comes out this week and here are some preview pages. Hawkins and Top Cow are producing some of the best pure science fiction in comics.

And if you haven't been reading the series, or you are a student at FGCU, here is the first issue for you to read.

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