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Fear of a Black Spider-Man:Racial Discourses and Miles Morales
By
JD Boucher
This ebook is a 25,000 word culmination of six months of in-depth academic research into Miles Morales, black superheroes, and the racial discourses they operate in. It contains:
-A discussion of the history of black superheroes and how they operate in racial discourses.
-An explanation of post-racial discourses, how Miles Morales is an example of a post-racial comic, and how interacting in a post-racial discourse limits the politics of comics featuring Miles Morales.
-A description of historically limiting phenomenons present in comics with black superheroes and how Miles breaks from them.
-A look at how comic industry discourses in comic books led to the creation and limitation of Miles Morales comics.
-An analysis of fan reactions to Miles Morales and how it brought discussions of race to the forefront of comics fandom.
-Steps the comic book industry can do as a whole to move forward to create more hybridized, less limiting comics.
- Size 854 KB
- Length 90 pages