Unstable Masks Whiteness and American Superhero Comics 1st Edition by Sean Guynes, Martin Lund ISBN 9780814214183 0814214185

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ISBN 10: 0814214185
ISBN 13: 9780814214183
Author: Sean Guynes, Martin Lund

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In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics , Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the histories and stakes of whiteness studies, superhero comics, and superhero studies for academics, fans, and media-makers alike. The volume illustrates how the American comic book superhero is fundamentally a figure of white power and white supremacy and ultimately calls for diversity in superhero comics as well as a democratized media culture.
Contributors not only examine superhero narratives but also delve into the production, distribution, audience, and reception of those narratives, highlighting the imbrication of forces that have helped to create, normalize, question, and sometimes even subvert American beliefs about whiteness and race. Unstable Masks considers the co-constitutive nature of identity, representation, narrative, production and consumption, and historical and cultural contexts in forging the stereotypes that decide who gets to be a superhero and who gets to be American on the four-color pages of comic books.

Unstable Masks Whiteness and American Superhero Comics 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I: OUTLINING SUPERHEROIC WHITENESS
Chapter 1: Marked for Failure: Whiteness, Innocence, and Power in Defining Captain America, by Osvaldo Oyola
Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Whiteness of the Whale and the Darkness of the Dinosaur: The Africanist Presence in Superhero Comics from Black Lightning to Moon Girl, by Eric Berlatsky and Sika Dagbovie-Mullins
“Justice, like lightning . . .”
White Moon, Dark Devil
Bibliography
Chapter 3: “The Original Enchantment”: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Representational Logics in The New Mutants, by Jeremy M. Carnes
Introduction
The New Mutants on the Block
White Possession in New Rome
Race Shifting Out of the Badlands
Coda
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Racial Politics of Cloak and Dagger, by Olivia Hicks
Angel of Light and Demon of Darkness: Cloak and Dagger’s Ethnic (Super) Identities
All the Power and Purity of Their Mistress’s Soul: Dagger’s Super-White Femininity
A Blanket of White Powder as Soft as Snow: Drugs and Dagger
Coda
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Worlds Collide: Whiteness, Integration, and Diversity in the DC / Milestone Crossover, by Shamika Ann Mitchell
First Encounters
Continuity Problems: Is Coexistence Futile?
Utopian Visions: Whiteness and Wonderment
Worlds Collide: Whose World Is This?
Coda: Then and Now
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Whiteness and Superheroes in the Comix/Codices of Enrique Chagoya, by José Alaniz
Chagoya’s “Visual Density”
The Codex
Codex Espangliensis
“Whiteness That Haunts”
Bibliography
PART II: REACHING TOWARD WHITENESS
Chapter 7: Seeing White: Normalization and Domesticity in Vision’s Cyborg Identity, by Esther De Dauw
White Masculinity as Superhero Norm
Origins of the Heir
Vision’s Domestic Whiteness: The Son Becomes the Father
Miscegenation and White Manhood Destroyed
The Return of the Destructive Other
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 8: “Beware the Fanatic!”: Jewishness, Whiteness, and Civil Rights in X-Men (1963–1970), by Martin Lund
Ambiguous Mutantcy and Rights Consciousness
Identity Emergent
Different Perspectives
New Ink, New Fears
The Dream of Sameness
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Mutation, Racialization, Decimation: The X-Men as White Men, by Neil Shyminsky
White Skin and Racial Erasure
The Racial Fetishism of Mutant Dystopia
Cyclops’s Narrative of Terror
Closing Thoughts
Bibliography
Chapter 10: White Plasticity and Black Possibility in Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier, by Sean Guynes
Martian Manhunter and the Plasticity of Whiteness on the New Frontier
John Henry and the Possibility of the Black Superhero
Coda
Bibliography
Part III: WHITENESS BY A DIFFERENT COLOR
Chapter 11: White or Indian?: Whiteness and Becoming the White Indian Comics Superhero, by Yvonne Chireau
Introduction
Playing Indian
Whiteness in a Red Body
Transmutation of Whiteness in the White Indian Body
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 12: “A True Son of K’Un-Lun”: The Awkward Racial Politics of White Martial Arts Superheroes in the 1970s, by Matthew Pustz
Bibliography
Chapter 13: The Whitest There is at What I Do: Japanese Identity and the Unmarked Hero in Wolverine (1982), by Eric Sobel
Introducing Wolverine
Mariko and Wolverine: The Geisha and the White Man
Shingen: The Gangster
Wolverine’s Invulnerable Whiteness
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 14: The Dark Knight: Whiteness, Appropriation, Colonization, and Batman in the New 52 Era, by Jeffrey A. Brown
White Knight
Batman and Appropriation
Batman and Colonization
Bibliography
Afterword: Empowerment for Some, or Tentacle Sex for All, by Noah Berlatsky
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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