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Unstable masks : whiteness and American superhero comics

By Sean Guynes and Martin Lund

Book information

Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
2019033331, 2019033332, 9780814214183, 0814214185, 9780814277508, 0814277500
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6645250 bytes)
Series
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Pages
\287
Time added
2021-05-23 06:23:26

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Half Title Page Series Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Not to Interpret, but to Abolish: Whiteness Studies and American Superhero Comics: SEAN GUYNES AND MARTIN LUND PART I: OUTLINING SUPERHEROIC WHITENESS Chapter 1: Marked for Failure: Whiteness, Innocence, and Power in Defining Captain America: OSVALDO OYOLA Bibliography Chapter 2: 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 “Justice, like lightning . . .” White Moon, Dark Devil Bibliography Chapter 3: “The Original Enchantment”: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Representational Logics in The New Mutants: JEREMY M. CARNES The New Mutants on the Block White Possession in New Rome Race Shifting Out of the Badlands Coda Bibliography Chapter 4: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Racial Politics of Cloak and Dagger: OLIVIA HICKS All the Power and Purity of Their Mistress’s Soul: Dagger’s Super-White Femininity Coda Bibliography Chapter 5: Worlds Collide: Whiteness, Integration, and Diversity in the DC/Milestone Crossover: SHAMIKA ANN MITCHELL Continuity Problems: Is Coexistence Futile? Utopian Visions: Whiteness and Wonderment Worlds Collide: Whose World Is This? Coda: Then and Now Bibliography Chapter 6: Whiteness and Superheroes in the Comix/Codices of Enrique Chagoya: JOSÉ ALANIZ Chagoya’s “Visual Density” The Codex Codex Espangliensis “Whiteness That Haunts” Bibliography PART II: REACHING TOWARD WHITENESS Chapter 7: Seeing White: Normalization and Domesticity in Vision’s Cyborg Identity: ESTHER DE DAUW White Masculinity as Superhero Norm Origins of the Heir Vision’s Domestic Whiteness: The Son Becomes the Father Miscegenation and White Manhood Destroyed The Return of the Destructive Other Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 8: “Beware the Fanatic!”: Jewishness, Whiteness, and Civil Rights in X-Men (1963–1970): MARTIN LUND Ambiguous Mutantcy and Rights Consciousness Identity Emergent Different Perspectives New Ink, New Fears The Dream of Sameness Concluding Remarks Bibliography Chapter 9: Mutation, Racialization, Decimation: The X-Men as White Men: NEIL SHYMINSKY White Skin and Racial Erasure The Racial Fetishism of Mutant Dystopia Cyclops’s Narrative of Terror Closing Thoughts Bibliography Chapter 10: White Plasticity and Black Possibility in Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier: SEAN GUYNES John Henry and the Possibility of the Black Superhero Coda Bibliography PART III: WHITENESS BY A DIFFERENT COLOR Chapter 11: White or Indian? Whiteness and Becoming the White Indian Comics Superhero: YVONNE CHIREAU Playing Indian Whiteness in a Red Body Transmutation of Whiteness in the White Indian Body Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 12: “A True Son of K’un-Lun”: The Awkward Racial Politics of White Martial Arts Superheroes in the 1970s: MATTHEW PUSTZ Bibliography Chapter 13: The Whitest There Is at What I Do: Japanese Identity and the Unmarked Hero in Wolverine (1982): ERIC SOBEL Introducing Wolverine Mariko and Wolverine: The Geisha and the White Man Shingen: The Gangster Wolverine’s Invulnerable Whiteness Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 14: The Dark Knight: Whiteness, Appropriation, Colonization, and Batman in the New 52 Era: JEFFREY A. BROWN White Knight Batman and Appropriation Batman and Colonization Bibliography Afterword Empowerment for Some, or Tentacle Sex for All: NOAH BERLATSKY List of Contributors Index Series Page

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