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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]

Table of Contents:

• 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 / José 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.

Contributors:

Guynes, Sean , editor

Lund, Martin , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Unstable masks (Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020] — ISBN 9780814214183; LCCN 2019033331; OCLC Number 1114895007)

Related Series:

New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. — United States — History and criticism

Race awareness — United States — History and criticism

Superheroes in literature

Comic books, strips, etc.

Race awareness

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6725 .U578 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780814277508 (ebook)
0814277500 (ebook)
9780814277515 (electronic bk.)
0814277519 (electronic bk.)
9780814214183 (cloth) [Invalid]
0814214185 (cloth) [Invalid]
9780814255636 (paperback) [Invalid]
0814255639 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019033332

OCLC Numbers:

1128885349