[Commlist] New book: All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Texas 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

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*All New, All Different?*

A History of Race and the American Superhero

*Allan W. Austin & Patrick L. Hamilton***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781477318973/all-new-all-different/_*

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 eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of 
race in comics as well as in film and on television.*__*

Beginning with World War II, the authors trace the vexed depictions in 
early superhero stories, considering both Asian villains and nonwhite 
sidekicks. While the emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke 
Cage, Storm, and other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a 
cultural revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes 
nonetheless remained grounded in outdated assumptions. Multiculturalism 
encouraged further diversity, with 1980s superteams, the minority-run 
company Milestone’s new characters in the 1990s, and the arrival of Ms. 
Marvel, a Pakistani-American heroine, and a new Latinx Spider-Man in the 
2000s. Concluding with a discussion of contemporary efforts to make both 
a profit and a positive impact on society, /All New, All Different?/ 
enriches our understanding of the complex issues of racial 
representation in American popular culture.*__*

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*Allan W. Austin *is a professor of history at Misericordia University. 
He is the author of two previous books, /Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial 
Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917–1950/ and 
/From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World 
War II./ In addition, he served as co-editor of /Asian American History 
and Culture: An Encyclopedia and Space /and /Time: Essays on Visions of 
History in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television./

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*Patrick L. Hamilton *is an associate professor of English at 
Misericordia University. He is the author of Of /Space and Mind: 
Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction./ He has also 
published on /Los Bros Hernandez, The Walking Dead,/ and /Westworld/.*__*

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