[Comicsstudiessociety] IJoCA book for review: Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes (USA ONLY)

[Mike Rhode]

I just got a copy of this from the publisher, and it's available for review
to the first person in the US that emails me directly.

Mike
mrhode at gmail.com

Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American
Comics and Graphic Novels
By Josef Benson <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Contributors/B/Benson-Josef__;!!KGKeukY!nEGyPKd8OQDkbgHDW2kyqtC5VdSBMUjAwmXB8tfzfj5Z9_HjWQo9I78qwP2MEbIqvzCLiFKJb34a$ >
& Doug Singsen
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*Hardcover :* 9781496838339, 298 pages, 40 b&w illustrations, March 2022
*Paperback :* 9781496838346, 298 pages, 40 b&w illustrations, March 2022
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A wrestling with whiteness and white supremacy throughout the history of
comics creation
Description

American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture
out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic books in general are
products of whiteness, and both signal and hide its presence. Even when
comics creators and publishers sought to advance an antiracist agenda,
their attempts were often undermined by a lack of awareness of their own
whiteness and the ideological baggage that goes along with it. Even the
most celebrated figures of the industry, such as Jerry Siegel and Joe
Shuster, Jack Jackson, William Gaines, Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner,
and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the
problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions or
explanations.

*Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in
American Comics and Graphic Novels* provides a sober assessment of these
creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of
comics. Josef Benson and Doug Singsen identify how whiteness has been
defined, transformed, and occasionally undermined over the course of eighty
years in comics and in many genres, including westerns, horror, crime,
funny animal, underground comix, autobiography, literary fiction, and
historical fiction. This exciting and groundbreaking book assesses industry
giants, highlights some of the most important episodes in American comic
book history, and demonstrates how they relate to one another and form a
larger pattern, in unexpected and surprising ways.
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