{"id":168,"date":"2015-11-16T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=168"},"modified":"2015-10-03T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T23:21:23","slug":"who-gets-to-be-a-superhero-race-and-identity-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/16\/who-gets-to-be-a-superhero-race-and-identity-in-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Gets To Be A Superhero? Race And Identity In Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In artist Orion Martin’s project, X-Men of Color, he reimagined this famous X-Men cover by recoloring two characters as brown. This cover comes from a storyline in which mutants are being rounded up and exterminated by the government.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0X-Men<\/em> comic franchise is a story of a minority group struggling with discrimination due to their superhuman mutations —\u00a0a sci-fi allegory that \u00a0illustrates the troubles of real people dealing with\u00a0bigotry regarding race, sexuality, health and a host of other social issues. However, many readers\u00a0note that the\u00a0comics fail to actually depict the people that face\u00a0real-life discrimination, and instead include mostly\u00a0straight, white men.<\/p>\n

Neil Shyminsky, an academic who’s written about the X-Men<\/em>‘s complicated relationship with real-life racism:<\/p>\n

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[He] argues persuasively that playing out civil rights-related struggles with an all-white cast allows the white male audience of the comics to appropriate the struggles of marginalized peoples … “While its stated mission is to promote the acceptance of minorities of all kinds, X-Men<\/em> has not only failed to adequately redress issues of inequality \u2013 it actually reinforces inequality.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Orion Martin reimagined several iconic X-Men covers, recasting the superheroes as people of color. The move sparked a discussion on race in comics, both on the page and in the writers’ rooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Click here for the rest of the NPR article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More about Race & Racism in Marvel Comics<\/a><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0X-Men comic franchise is a story of a minority group struggling with discrimination due to their superhuman mutations —\u00a0a sci-fi allegory that \u00a0illustrates the troubles of real people dealing with\u00a0bigotry regarding race, sexuality, health and a host of other social issues. However, many readers\u00a0note that the\u00a0comics fail to actually depict the people that face\u00a0real-life discrimination, … Continue reading Who Gets To Be A Superhero? Race And Identity In Comics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[44,46,83,55,57,4,65,38],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-authored-post","tag-comic","tag-culture","tag-diversity","tag-minorities","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-white-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}