Mixed-Race Superheroes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978814593
• ISBN13: 9781978814592
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher