Unstable masks : whiteness and American superhero comics / edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Jose 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 (19631970) / 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.

"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.