All new, all different? : a history of race and the American superhero / Allan W. Austin, Patrick L. Hamilton.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Austin, Allan W. (Author)
Hamilton, Patrick Lawrence (Author)
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:World comics and graphic nonfiction series.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
Heroes > Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Race in comic books, strips, etc.
Superhero comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Genre:
Comic books, strips, etc.
History and criticism.
Physical Description:xv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : into the "gutters"
  • 1. "World's finest?" : the wartime superhero and race, 1941-1945
  • 2. Struggling for social relevance : DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945-1965
  • 3. "We're all brothers!" : the ideal of liberal brotherhood in the 1960s & 1970s
  • 4. Guess who's coming to save you? : the rise of the ethnic superhero in the 1960s & 1970s
  • 5. "Something for everyone:" the super team in the age of multiculturalism, 1975-1996
  • 6. Replacement heroes and the quest for inclusion, 1985-2011
  • 7. Something old, something new: heroes reborn and reimagined, 1990-2015
  • Coda : born again (and again and again ... and again and again. . .).