Unstable masks : whiteness and American superhero comics

Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund
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Contents
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Foreword: Unmasking Whiteness: Re-Spacing the Speculative in Superhero Comics, by Frederick Luis Aldama
	Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Not to Interpret, but to Abolish: Whiteness Studies and American Superhero Comics, by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund
	Whiteness Studies and American Culture
	The Whiteness of the Superhero
	Outlining Instability
	Bibliography
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
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