<div dir="auto">I'll do it.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Austin Kemp</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 11:56 AM Mike Rhode via ComicsStudiesSociety <<a href="mailto:comicsstudiessociety@lists.osu.edu">comicsstudiessociety@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nobody is interested in reviewing this? Heck, I bought myself a copy after i saw the ToC.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mrhode@gmail.com</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:36 AM Mike Rhode <<a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mrhode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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</div><div>Available to our first responder in the US (due to postage) who writes directly to me (I'm on digest).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://rutgers-us.imgix.net/covers/9781978814592.jpg?auto=format&h=648" alt="Mixed-Race Superheroes" style="margin-right:0px" width="435" height="653"> </div>
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<h1>Mixed-Race Superheroes</h1><p>Edited by <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/search-list/?contributor=sika-a-dagbovie-mullins__;!!KGKeukY!kL3ntJHXDHFJkS8v_yR3XkPhgZissVe1ZFkI9wrH8ZGzwhjLEV2IINcfuzb2JAsuTD7KxYmOnqsd$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins</a>, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/search-list/?contributor=eric-l-berlatsky__;!!KGKeukY!kL3ntJHXDHFJkS8v_yR3XkPhgZissVe1ZFkI9wrH8ZGzwhjLEV2IINcfuzb2JAsuTD7KxbwJWKRe$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Eric L. Berlatsky</a> <br>Contributions by <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/search-list/?contributor=eric-l-berlatsky__;!!KGKeukY!kL3ntJHXDHFJkS8v_yR3XkPhgZissVe1ZFkI9wrH8ZGzwhjLEV2IINcfuzb2JAsuTD7KxbwJWKRe$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Eric L. 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<div>About This Book</div>
<div><div>American
culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms.
On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality,
impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can
also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special
potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media,
which runs the gamut from <i>Ant-Man and the Wasp</i>’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.” <br> <br>
The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that
racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films,
television, and literature. They explore how superhero media positions
mixed-race characters within a genre that has historically privileged
racial purity and propagated images of white supremacy. The book
considers such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk,
alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and
Steven Universe. Examining both literal and symbolic representations of
racial mixing, this study interrogates how we might challenge and
rewrite stereotypical narratives about mixed-race identity, both in
superhero media and beyond.</div></div>
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<div>About the Author/Editor</div>
<div><div>SIKA
A. DAGBOVIE-MULLINS is an associate professor of English at Florida
Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Her publications include the book <i>Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture</i>. <br> <br>
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 <i>The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation</i> and the edited volume <i>Alan Moore: Conversations</i>.</div></div>
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<div>"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 <i>Mixed-Race Superheroes</i> shatters conventional notions
of race, gender, and sexuality in the superhero genre while providing a
deeply satisfying, critically engaging and eminently enjoyable read."<br> </div><br>--Ralina Joseph, author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity<br><br><div>"While
it has long been known that white supremacy was baked into the
superhero at its origin some eighty 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, <i>mestiza</i> consciousness and
intersectionality in the transmedial twenty-first-century superhero
genre. Given the realities of living in the post-2016 USA, this book
couldn’t come at a better time."<br> </div><br>--José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond<br><br><div>"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."<br> </div><br>--Lan Dong, Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, University of Illinois Springfield<br><br><div>"An insightful and transformative work. <i>Mixed-Race Superheroes</i>
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."<br> <br> </div><br>--Julian
C. Chambliss, co-editor of Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domain<br><br> </div>
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<div>Table of Contents</div>
<div>Introduction by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky<br> Part I Superheroes in Black and White<br> 1. Guess Who’s Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man’s<br> Comic and Cinematic Homecomings by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins <br> 2. The Ride of the Valkyrie Against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in <i>Thor:</i><br><i>Ragnarok</i> by Jasmine Mitchell <br> 3. “Which World Would You Rather Live In?” The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary<br> Jackson’s Poetry by Chris Gavaler <br> 4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in <i>The</i><i>Flash</i><br> Comics and Television Show by Eric L. Berlatsky<br> Part II Metaphors of/and Mixedness <br> 5. “Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!” Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic<br> Future in <i>Steven Universe </i>by Corrine E. Collins <br> 6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes by Gregory T. Carter<br> 7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in <i>Monstress</i> by Chris Koenig-Woodyard <br> 8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC’s Superman through Mixed-Race<br> Studies by Kwasu David Tembo<br> Part III Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections)<br> 9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales<br> by Jorge J. Santos Jr.<br> 10. “They’re Two People in One Body”: Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race<br> Mutations in FX’s <i>Legion</i> by Nicholas E. Miller<br> 11. <i>Into to the Spider-Verse </i>and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility by Isabel Molina-Guzmán<br> 12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC’s <i>Doctor Fate </i>and the Arab Spring<br> by Adrienne Resha<br> Acknowledgments<br> Notes on Contributors<br> Index</div></div></div></div></div>
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