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Harry Potter and the other : race, justice, and difference in the wizarding world / edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.

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Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

Rowling, J. K. -- Criticism and interpretation.

Rowling, J. K. -- Characters -- Harry Potter.

Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.

Race in literature.

9781496840561 (paperback)

1496840569 (paperback)

Children's Literature Association series.

xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Harry and the other: multicultural and social justice anti-racism in J.K. Rowlings's Harry Potter series / Jackie C. Horne -- Realism and race: the narrative politics of Harry Potter / Karin E. Westman -- The magical (racial) contract: understanding the wizarding world of Harry Potter through whiteness / Christina M. Chica -- "Cho Chang is trending": what it means to be Asian in the wizarding world / Sarah Park Dahlen and Kallie Schell -- When the subaltern speak Parseltongue: Orientalism, racial re-presentation, and Claudia Kim as Nagini / Jennifer Patrice Sims -- Racebending Potter: how fan artists are recoloring the wizarding world / Kathryn Cato -- Half-blood: mixed race tropes, old and new in Harry Potter's world / Lily Anne Welty Tamai and Paul Spickard -- Chosen names, changed appearances, and unchallenged binaries: trans-exclusionary themes in Harry Potter / Tolonda Henderson -- Hermione is Black: Harry Potter and the crisis of infinite dark fantastic worlds / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas -- #NotMyHermione: authorship and ownership in the Harry Potter and the cursed child casting controversy / Peter C. Kunze -- Racism, canon, and the controversy surrounding #BlackHermione / Florence Maätita and Marcia Hernandez -- Harry Potter and Black liberation movements: addressing the imagination gap with history / Jasmine Wade -- Teaching Harry Potter as an "Other": an African American professor's journey in teaching Harry Potter in the college composition classroom / Susan E. Howard -- Is Dobby a Free Elf? / Sridevi Rao and Preethi Gorecki -- The failed wizard justice system: race and access to justice in Harry Potter / Charles D. Wilson.

"Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World is a timely anthology that examines, interrogates, and critiques representations of race and difference across various Harry Potter media, including books, films, and official websites, as well as online forums and the classroom. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, a deeper reading of the series reveals multiple ruptures in popular understandings of the liberatory potential of the Potter series. Increasingly, readers have raised alarms abot the series' depiction of peoples of color, cultural appropriation in worldbuilding, and the author's antitrans statements in the media. This book provides a smorgasbord of insights into the way that race and difference have shaped this story, its world, its author, and the generations who have come of age during the era of the Wizarding World."-- Publisher.

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