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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       Subjects     Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism.     Racially mixed people in literature.     Superheroes in literature.     Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.     Passing (Identity) in literature.     Browse Catalog       by title:      Mixed-race superhero...         MARC Display

Mixed-race superheroes / edited by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021] Subjects Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism.   Racially mixed people in literature.   Superheroes in literature.   Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.   Passing (Identity) in literature. ISBN:  9781978814592 paperback 1978814593 paperback Description:  viii, 278 pages: color illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Mixed-Race Superheroes examines representations of racial mixedness, literal, metaphorical, and symbolic, that take on, challenge, or complicate the stereotypes and romanticization of mixed-race identities and the idea of the superhero. Racial mixedness has long been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies on the one hand, while also ironically connoting genetic superiority, exceptional beauty/physicality and unique potential. In contemporary discussions, this romanticization of racial mixedness is linked to the idea of the mixed-race individual as a kind of savior figure who has unique abilities to free us from racial tensions and divisions. While racial mixedness is now sometimes viewed as a superpower in itself, the origins of superhero stories are much more substantively rooted in the opposed rhetoric and practice of racial purity and white supremacy. In short, racial mixedness and superheroes are both historically and currently linked"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 741.59 Mi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 741.59 Mixed Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 741.59 Mi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 741.59 Mi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 741.59 Mi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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