Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices

Contents
Foreword: For All Fankind | Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Introduction
One. Methodologies
	1. A Case for Critical Methods: Sense Making, Race, and Fandom | Elizabeth R. Hornsby
	2. The Intended vs. the Unintended Audience: Deconstructing Positionality in Fandom | Sam Pack
	3. The Absence of Race: Teaching Practices and Inclusion in the Fandom Classroom | Katherine Anderson Howell
Two. Otherness
	4. Raceplay: Whiteness and Erasure in Cross-Racial Cosplay | Joan Miller
	5. “But I’m a Foreigner Too”: Otherness, Racial Oversimplification, and Historical Amnesia in Japan’s K-pop Scene | Miranda Ruth Larsen
Three. Affirmative/Transformative
	6. Alpha/Beta/Omega: Racialized Narratives and Fandom’s Investment in Whiteness | Angie Fazekas
	7. Fill in the Blank: Customizable Player Characters and Video Game Fandom Practice | Indira Neill Hoch
	8. Waiting in the Wings: Inclusivity and the Limits of Racebending | Samira Nadkarni and Deepa Sivarajan
	9. Understanding Good and Evil: The Influence of Fandom on Overcoming Reductive Racial Representations in Dungeons and Dragons | Carina Lapointe
Four. Identity/Authenticity
	10. Whose Representation Is It Anyway? Contemporary Debates in Femslash Fandoms | Rukmini Pande and Swati Moitra
	11. Jane the Virgen or Virgin? The Dis-United States of (Latino) Fandom | Jenni M. Lehtinen
	12. “Not My Captain America”: Racebending, Reverse Discrimination, and White Panic in the Marvel Comics Fandom | McKenna James Boeckner, Monica Flegel, and Judith Leggatt
	13. Real Love? Authenticity as Capital in Let’s Play Culture | Al Valentín
Contributors
Bibliography
Index