Mixed-Race Superheroes /

Mixed-Race Superheroes / / ed. by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Eric L. Berlatsky.

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American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Berlatsky, Eric L.,
Carter, Gregory T.,
Collins, Corrine E.,
Collins, Corrine Esther,
Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A.,
David Tembo, Kwasu,
Gavaler, Chris,
Koenig-Woodyard, Chris,
Miller, Nicholas E.,
Mitchell, Jasmine,
Molina-Guzman, Isabel,
Molina-Guzmán, Isabel,
Resha, Adrienne,
Santos, Jorge J.,
Tembo, Kwasu David,
HerausgeberIn:
Berlatsky, Eric L.,
Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.) :; 24 color images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Superheroes in Black and White
  • 1. Guess Who’s Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man’s Comic and Cinematic Homecomings
  • 2. The Ride of Valkyrie against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in Thor: Ragnarok
  • 3. “Which World Would You Rather Live In?” The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary Jackson’s Poetry
  • 4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in The Flash Comics and Television Show
  • Part 2. Metaphors of / and Mixedness
  • 5. “Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!” Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic Future in Steven Universe
  • 6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes
  • 7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in Monstress
  • 8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC’s Superman through Mixed-Race Studies
  • Part 3. Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections)
  • 9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales
  • 10. “They’re Two People in One Body”: Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race Mutations in FX’s Legion
  • 11. Into the Spider-Verse and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility
  • 12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC’s Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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