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Author: Allan W. Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477318968 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 393
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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and 1970s reflected a cultural revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetheless remained grounded in outdated assumptions.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 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.
Author: Allan W. Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477318992 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 393
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Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019 MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020 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.
Author: Andrew Norman Publisher: Pen and Sword History ISBN: 1399006312 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 207
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The book describes how Lisa Meitner, of Jewish heritage, found herself working as a physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933; how she was hounded out of the country and forced to relocate to Sweden; how German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman continued with the project – on the effect of bombarding uranium (the heaviest known element at the time) with neutrons, a project which Lise herself had initiated, being the intellectual leader of the group. It describes how Hahn and Strassmann, with whom she kept in touch, came up with some extraordinary results which they were at a loss to explain; how Lise, and her nephew Otto Frisch, who was also a physicist, confirmed what they had achieved - the ‘splitting of the atom’, no less, and provided them with a theoretical explanation for it. This laid the foundation for nuclear power, medical-scanning technology, radiotherapy, electronics, and of course, the atomic bomb - the creation of which filled Lise with horror. It describes the crucial part that Lise played in our understanding of the world of atoms, and how deliberate and strenuous attempts were made to deny her contribution; to belittle her achievements, and to write her out of the history books, even though Albert Einstein said she was even ‘more talented than Marie Curie herself’. The author is fortunate and honoured to have been granted several interviews with Lise’s nephew Philip Meitner – himself a refugee from the Nazis - who with his wife Anne, provided much valuable information and many photographs.
Author: Chester S. Geier Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1479436038 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 449
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Chester S. Geier (1921-1990) was a U.S. author and editor whose first work, "A Length of Rope" (included here) appeared in Unknown in April 1941. Ray Palmer recruited him to write for the Ziff-Davis group, where he became a frequent contributor to Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures. He published under his own name and several pseudonyms, including Guy Archette, Alexander Blade, P F Costello, Warren Kastel, S M Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance and Peter Worth. This volume collects 21 of his science fiction and fantasy stories: A LENGTH OF ROPE THE SPHERE OF SLEEP ENIGMA OF THE CITY SKY IMP IF YOU BELIEVE FIDO ENVIRONMENT WEEP NO MORE, MY ROBOT DISAPPEARANCE JEWEL OF DEATH MIRAGE WORLD FOUR WHO RETURNED A CRYSTAL AND A SPELL GETAWAY HAPPINESS IS NOWHERE HAUNTED METROPOLIS QUEST OF THE SPLIT MAP DEATH SENTENCE WATER LODE THE FINAL HOUR If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Economic Report. Subcommittee on General Credit Control and Debt Management Publisher: ISBN: Category : Debts, Public Languages : en Pages : 1006
Author: Lyle Gifford Boyd Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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This book examines historical accounts and photographs of UFOs seen over the skies of the USA up to the 1960s. The author has examined a large amount of information and compared accounts with scientific explanations of the same events.
Author: Allan W. Austin
Author: Allan W. Austin
Author: Andrew Norman
Author: Chester S. Geier
Author: United States. Congress. Economic Report Joint Committee
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Economic Report. Subcommittee on General Credit Control and Debt Management
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
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Author: Lyle Gifford Boyd
Author: United States. Congress