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

[Austin Kemp]

I'll do it.

-Austin Kemp

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 11:56 AM Mike Rhode via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Nobody is interested in reviewing this? Heck, I bought myself a copy after
> i saw the ToC.
>
> Mike
> mrhode at gmail.com
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:36 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> 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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>> [image: Mixed-Race Superheroes]
>> 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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>> Gregory T. Carter
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>> Chris Gavaler
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>> Chris Koenig-Woodyard
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>> Nicholas E. Miller
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>> Isabel Molina-Guzman
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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
>> Paperback,April 16, 2021,$32.95
>>
>> 9781978814592
>> Cloth,April 16, 2021,$74.95
>>
>> 9781978814608
>> EPUB,April 16, 2021,$32.95
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>> 9781978814615
>> PDF,April 16, 2021,$32.95
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>> 9781978814639
>> Kindle,April 16, 2021,$32.95
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>> 9781978814622
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>> Published by Rutgers University Press
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>> Disciplines: Race and Ethnic Studies
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>> Comics Studies
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>> American Studies
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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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