Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has racially diversified its lineup and reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther, recast legacy heroes like Ms. Marvel, and developed new ones like the Latina Miss America.
Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has racially diversified its lineup and reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther, recast legacy heroes like Ms. Marvel, and developed new ones like the Latina Miss America.
JEFFREY A. BROWN is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture and the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His many books include Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans and Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus.
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Contents Introduction: Marvel and Modern America 1. Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism 2. The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics 3. Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comics 4. Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification and Appropriation 5. Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation and Repatriation 6. Totally Awesome Asian Heroes vs. Stereotypes 7. A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes 8. Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine Afterword: "Because the World Still Needs Heroes" Works Cited
Contents Introduction: Marvel and Modern America 1. Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism 2. The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics 3. Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comics 4. Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification and Appropriation 5. Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation and Repatriation 6. Totally Awesome Asian Heroes vs. Stereotypes 7. A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes 8. Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine Afterword: "Because the World Still Needs Heroes" Works Cited
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