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All new, all different? : a history of race and the American superhero
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All new, all different? : a history of race and the American superhero / Allan W. Austin, Patrick L. Hamilton.
ISBN
9781477318966
1477318968
9781477318973
1477318976
9781477318980
9781477318997
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 08, 2020
Series
World comics and graphic nonfiction series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index.
Contents
Introduction : into the "gutters"
1. "World's finest?" : the wartime superhero and race, 1941-1945
2. Struggling for social relevance : DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945-1965
3. "We're all brothers!" : the ideal of liberal brotherhood in the 1960s & 1970s
4. Guess who's coming to save you? : the rise of the ethnic superhero in the 1960s & 1970s
5. "Something for everyone:" the super team in the age of multiculturalism, 1975-1996
6. Replacement heroes and the quest for inclusion, 1985-2011
7. Something old, something new: heroes reborn and reimagined, 1990-2015
Coda : born again (and again and again ... and again and again. . .).
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