The setting of black characters in Marvel Comics

periphery, villainy and interracial relationships

Authors

  • Amaro Xavier Braga Júnior

Keywords:

Comic books, Black characters, Discrimination

Abstract

The study is a survey based on a content analysis of the black characters in Superhero Comics of Marvel Comics. It analyzes its insertion in the environments described socially and identifies, through qualitative and quantitative standards, the situations of peripheral setting of these characters, heroic and adjuncts. The study questions, through publications between the decades, the relationship between black superheroes and villains; the text concludes doing a scan on sexual and affective interracial relations emerged in this field of comics.

Author Biography

Amaro Xavier Braga Júnior

Bacharel em Antropologia, Licenciado em Sociologia. Especialista em História da Arte e das Religiões, em Artes Visuais e em Gestão de EAD. Mestre e Doutorando em Sociologia. Professor na Universidade Federal de Alagoas.

Published

2022-09-16

How to Cite

Braga Júnior, A. X. (2022). The setting of black characters in Marvel Comics: periphery, villainy and interracial relationships. Identidade!, 18(1), 3–20. Retrieved from http://198.211.97.179/periodicos_novo/index.php/Identidade/article/view/1898

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