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

"Contextualizes the history of race within comic books and the fundamental whiteness observed in American superhero narratives from the late 1930s to the present"--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Guynes, Sean (Editor), Lund, Martin, 1979- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
Race awareness > United States > History and criticism.
Superheroes in literature.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Race awareness.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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 / José 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 (1963-1970) / 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.