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Mixed-race superheroes /

"Mixed-Race Superheroes examines representations of racial mixedness, literal, metaphorical, and symbolic, that take on, challenge, or complicate the stereotypes and romanticization of mixed-race identities and the idea of the superhero. Racial mixedness has long been associated with weakness,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A. (Editor ), Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky
  • PART I: SUPERHEROES IN BLACK AND WHITE. 1. Guess who's coming home? Mixed metaphors of home in Spider-Man's comic and cinematic homecomings / Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
  • 2. The Ride of Valkyrie against White supremacy: Tessa Thompson's casting in Thor: Ragnarok / Jasmine Mitchell
  • 3. "Which world would you rather live in?" The anti-utopian superheroes of Gary Jackson's poetry / Chris Gavaler
  • 4. Flash of two races: incest, miscegenation, and the mixed-race superhero in The Flash comics and television show / Eric L. Berlatsky
  • PART II: METAPHORS OF/AND MIXEDNESS. 5. "Let yourself just be whoever you are!" Decolonial hybridity and the queer cosmic future in Steven universe / Corrine E. Collins
  • 6. The Hulk and Venom: warring blood superheroes / Gregory T. Carter
  • 7. Monsters, mutants, and mongrels: the mixed-race hero in Monstress / Chris Koenig-Woodyard
  • 8. Examining otherness and the marginal man in DC's Superman through mixed-race studies / Kwasu David Tembo
  • PART III: MULTIETHNIC MIXEDNESS (OR MIXED-RACE INTERSECTIONS). 9. Talented tensions and revisions: the narrative double consciousness of Miles Morales / Jorge J. Santos, Jr.
  • 10. "They're two people in one body": nested sovereignties and mixed-race mutations in FX's Legion / Nicolas E. Miller
  • 11. Into the Spider-verse and the commodified (re)imaging of Afro-Rican visibility / Isabel Molina-Guzman
  • 12. Truth, justice, and the (ancient) Egyptian way: DC's Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring / Adrienne Resha
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.