Afterword: Empowerment for some, or tentacle sex for all / Noah Berlatsky. Introduction: Not to interpret, but to abolish: whiteness studies and American superhero comics / Sean Guynes and Martin Lund -- Marked for failure: whiteness, innocence, and power in defining Captain America / Osvaldo Oyola -- The whiteness of the whale and the darkness of the dinosaur: the Africanist presence in superhero comics from Black Lightning to Moon Girl / Eric Berlatsky and Sika Dagbovie-Mullins -- "The original enchantment": whiteness, indigeneity, and representational logics in The New Mutants / Jeremy M. Carnes -- Fearfully and wonderfully made: the racial politics of Cloak and Dagger / Olivia Hicks -- Worlds collide: whiteness, integration, and diversity in the DC/Milestone crossover / Shamika Ann Mitchell -- Whiteness and superheroes in the comix/codices of Enrique Chagoya / JoseĢ Alaniz -- Seeing white: normalization and domesticity in Vision's Cyborg Identity / Esther De Dauw -- "Beware the fanatic!": Jewishness, whiteness, and civil rights in X-Men (1963-1970) / Martin Lund -- Mutation, racialization, decimation: the X-Men as white men / Neil Shyminsky -- White plasticity and Black possibility in Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier / Sean Guynes -- White or Indian? Whiteness and becoming the white Indian comics superhero / Yvonne Chireau -- "A true son of K'un-Lun": the awkward racial politics of white martial arts superheroes in the 1970s / Matthew Pustz -- The whitest there is at what I do: Japanese identity and the unmarked hero in Wolverine (1982) / Eric Sobel -- The Dark Knight: whiteness, appropriation, colonization, and Batman in the New 52 Era / Jeffrey A. Brown -- Afterword: Empowerment for some, or tentacle sex for all / Noah Berlatsky.
Summary:
"Contextualizes the history of race within comic books and the fundamental whiteness observed in American superhero narratives from the late 1930s to the present"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative
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