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Providing a history of whiteness in American comics from the 1930s to the present, Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels brings attention to the hidden racial hierarchy that has shaped comics. This timely volume--which looks at everything from early superhero comics to jungle comics of the 1940s and 1950s, underground and alternative comix hits from the 1960s to today, and more recent diverse superhero comics--offers an account of whiteness and white supremacy as the structuring agent of racial inequality in comics that has gone almost completely unexplored.--Sean Guynes, coeditor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

Providing a history of whiteness in American comics from the 1930s to the present, Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels brings attention to the hidden racial hierarchy that has shaped comics. This timely volume--which looks at everything from early superhero comics to jungle comics of the 1940s and 1950s, underground and alternative comix hits from the 1960s to today, and more recent diverse superhero comics--offers an account of whiteness and white supremacy as the structuring agent of racial inequality in comics that has gone almost completely unexplored.--Sean Guynes, writer, critic, and coeditor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

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Josef Benson is associate professor of literatures and languages at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He is author of Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture; J. D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"": A Cultural History; and Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. Doug Singsen is associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. His work has been published in Modernism/modernity, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Key Terms in Comics Studies, Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, and Art History Teaching Resources.

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