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    Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
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    Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

    By Frederick Luis Aldama and Noah Berlatsky

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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.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOhio State University Press
    Release dateJan 7, 2020
    ISBN9780814277508
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    Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
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    Frederick Luis Aldama

    Frederick Luis Aldama, also known as Professor Latinx, is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and affiliate faculty in radio-TV-film at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as adjunct professor and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is author of over forty-eight books and has received the International Latino Book Award and an Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor or coeditor of nine academic press book series, including Biographix with University Press of Mississippi. He is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes and founder and director of UT’s Latinx Pop Lab. His Spanish translation and animation film adaptation of his children’s book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) will be released in the fall of 2021. He is also editor of Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia and Jeff Smith: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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