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

[Mike Rhode]

That was fast!

Folks, the book has been taken.

Richard, send me your mailing info offlist pleast.

Mike

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 10:31 AM Richard Diaz <rd2919 at columbia.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
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> I’d like to review it if possible.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 6, 2022, at 10:29 AM, Mike Rhode via ComicsStudiesSociety <
> comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>  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
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> Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes Whiteness and Its Borderlands in
> American Comics and Graphic Novels
> By Josef Benson
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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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