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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction / Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. BerlAtsky

Part I. Superheroes in Black and White

1. Guess Who's Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man's Comic and Cinematic Homecomings / Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins

2. The Ride of Valkyrie against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson's Casting in Thor: Ragnarok / Jasmine Mitchell

3 "Which World Would You Rather Live In?" The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary Jackson's Poetry / Chris Gavaler

4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in The Flash Comics and Television Show / Eric L. BerlAtsky

Part II. Metaphors of / and Mixedness

5. "Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!" Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic Future in Steven Universe / Corrine E . Collins

6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes / Gregory T. Carter

7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in Monstress / Chris Koenig-Woodyard

8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC's Superman through Mixed-Race Studies / Kwasu David Tembo

Part III. Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections)

9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales / Jorge J. Santos Jr.

10. "They're Two People in One Body": Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race Mutations in FX's Legion / Nicholas E. Miller

11. Into the Spider-Verse and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility / Isabel Molina-Guzmán

12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC's Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring / Adrienne Resha

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index.