[Comicsstudiessociety] Mixed-Race Superheroes available for review in USA for IJOCA

[Mike Rhode]

Available to our first responder in the US (due to postage) who writes
directly to me (I'm on digest).

Thanks,

Mike






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Mixed-Race Superheroes

Edited by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
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Eric L. Berlatsky
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Contributions by Eric L. Berlatsky
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Chris Gavaler
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Chris Koenig-Woodyard
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Nicholas E. Miller
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Jorge J. Santos Jr.
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Kwasu David Tembo
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Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
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Jasmine Mitchell
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Adrienne Resha
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288 pages, 24 color images, 6 x 9
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Published by Rutgers University Press

Disciplines: Race and Ethnic Studies
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Media Studies, and Communications
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American Studies
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American
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Cultural
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About This Book
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 *Ant-Man and the Wasp*’s tragic mulatta villain
Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.”

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.
About the Author/Editor
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*.
Reviews
"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

"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,
*mestiza* 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."


--José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver
Age and Beyond

"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

"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

Table of Contents
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 *The**Flash*
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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