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

Contributor(s): Series: New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculativePublisher: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: xviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814255636
  • 0814255639
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Unstable masks.LOC classification:
  • PN6725 .U578 2020
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 / 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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library New Book Shelf PN6725 .U578 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001459832

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.

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