Mixed-Race Superheroes

Author:   Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins ,  Eric L. Berlatsky ,  Eric L. Berlatsky ,  Gregory T. Carter
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9781978814608


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 April 2021
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Author:   Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins ,  Eric L. Berlatsky ,  Eric L. Berlatsky ,  Gregory T. Carter
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781978814608


ISBN 10:   1978814607
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 April 2021
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky Part I    Superheroes in Black and White 1. Guess Who’s Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man’s Comic and Cinematic Homecomings by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins                        2. The Ride of the Valkyrie Against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in Thor: Ragnarok by Jasmine Mitchell                                                                                   3. “Which World Would You Rather Live In?” The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary Jackson’s Poetry by Chris Gavaler                                                     4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in TheFlash Comics and Television Show by Eric L. Berlatsky Part II    Metaphors of/and Mixedness                        5. “Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!” Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic Future in Steven Universe by Corrine E. Collins                                                6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes by Gregory T. Carter 7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in Monstress by Chris Koenig-Woodyard                                                                               8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC’s Superman through Mixed-Race Studies by Kwasu David Tembo Part III    Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections) 9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales by Jorge J. Santos Jr. 10. “They’re Two People in One Body”: Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race Mutations in FX’s Legion by Nicholas E. Miller 11. Into to the Spider-Verse and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility by Isabel Molina-Guzmán 12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC’s Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring by Adrienne Resha Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index                                                                                        

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Dagbovie-Mullins and Berlatsky's book is a unique and timely collection discussing superhero comics and films at the intersection of comics studies and critical mixed-race studies. The chapters provide valuable resources for scholars as well as students in multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and make a significant contribution to existing scholarship on racial mixedness in cultural productions. --Lan Dong Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, University of Illinois Springfield While it has long been known that white supremacy was baked into the superhero at its origin some 80 years ago, this important collection of essays examines vibrant new works that reimagine and reinvent that troubled legacy. Through discussions of such figures as Miles Morales, the cinematic Valkyrie and Barack Obama, it advances the growing centrality of mixedness, mestiza consciousness and intersectionality in the transmedial 21st century superhero genre. Given the realities of living in the post-2016 USA, this book couldn't come at a better time. --Jose Alaniz author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond How often do you read a book that you simultaneously think, I want to assign this to my graduate seminar, cite it in the piece I'm working on, and slip a copy to my teenage kid? Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky's Mixed-Race Superheroes shatters conventional notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the superhero genre while providing a deeply satisfying, critically engaging and eminently enjoyable read. --Ralina Joseph author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity


Dagbovie-Mullins and Berlatsky's book is a unique and timely collection discussing superhero comics and films at the intersection of comics studies and critical mixed-race studies. The chapters provide valuable resources for scholars as well as students in multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and make a significant contribution to existing scholarship on racial mixedness in cultural productions. --Lan Dong Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, University of Illinois Springfield While it has long been known that white supremacy was baked into the superhero at its origin some 80 years ago, this important collection of essays examines vibrant new works that reimagine and reinvent that troubled legacy. Through discussions of such figures as Miles Morales, the cinematic Valkyrie and Barack Obama, it advances the growing centrality of mixedness, mestiza consciousness and intersectionality in the transmedial 21st century superhero genre. Given the realities of living in the post-2016 USA, this book couldn't come at a better time. --Jose Alaniz author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond How often do you read a book that you simultaneously think, I want to assign this to my graduate seminar, cite it in the piece I'm working on, and slip a copy to my teenage kid? Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky's Mixed-Race Superheroes shatters conventional notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the superhero genre while providing a deeply satisfying, critically engaging and eminently enjoyable read. --Ralina Joseph author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity An insightful and transformative work. Mixed-Race Superheroes reveals the hidden possibilities of the superhero genre. Profoundly thoughtful and carefully researched, this volume uses the ubiquitous cultural language of the superhero genre and the complexity inherent to racial hybridity to illustrate crucial points about identity, community, and power in the United States. This volume uses a transmedia framework to bring characters, settings, and themes linked to superheroes into a dynamic and revealing conversation. This collection will be useful for researchers steeped in these issues while highlighting innovative points of inquiry for scholars new to the superhero genre. --Julian C. Chambliss co-editor of Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domain


Author Information

SIKA A. DAGBOVIE-MULLINS is an associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Her publications include the book Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture.    ERIC L. BERLATSKY is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he also serves as the associate dean of graduate studies and directs the Ph.D. program in comparative studies.  His books include The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation and the edited volume Alan Moore: Conversations.

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