All New, All Different? : : A History of Race and the American Superhero /

All New, All Different? : : A History of Race and the American Superhero / / Patrick L. Hamilton, Allan W. Austin.

Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work charts ei...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Austin, Allan W.,
Hamilton, Patrick L.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (373 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Into the “Gutters”
  • CHAPTER 1 “World’s Finest”? The Wartime Superhero and Race, 1941–1945
  • CHAPTER 2 Struggling for Social Relevance: DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945–1965
  • CHAPTER 3 “We’re All Brothers!”: The Ideal of Liberal Brotherhood in the 1960s and 1970s
  • CHAPTER 4 Guess Who’s Coming to Save You? The Rise of the Ethnic Superhero in the 1960s and 1970s
  • CHAPTER 5 “Something for Everyone”: The Superteam in the Age of Multiculturalism, 1975–1996
  • CHAPTER 6 Replacement Heroes and the Quest for Inclusion, 1985–2011
  • CHAPTER 7 Something Old, Something New: Heroes Reborn and Reimagined, 1990–2015
  • Coda: Born Again (and Again and Again . . . and Again and Again . . .)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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