Fandom, Now in Color

A Collection of Voices

Rukmini Pande

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781609387297
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Fandom, Now in Color gathers together seemingly contradictory narratives that intersect at the (in)visibility of race/ism in fandom and fan studies. This collection engages the problem by undertaking the different tactics of decolonization—diversifying methodologies, destabilizing canons of "must-read" scholarship by engaging with multiple disciplines, making whiteness visible but not the default against which all other kinds of racialization must compete, and decentering white fans even in those fandoms where they are the assumed majority. These new narratives concern themselves with a broad swath of media, from cosplay and comics to tabletop roleplay and video games, and fandoms from Jane the Virgin to Japan's K-pop scene. Fandom, Now in Color asserts that no one answer or approach can sufficiently come to grips with the shifting categories of race, racism, and racial identity.

Contributors: McKenna Boeckner, Angie Fazekas, Monica Flegel, Elizabeth Hornsby, Katherine Anderson Howell, Carina Lapointe, Miranda Ruth Larsen, Judith Leggatt, Jenni Lehtinen, joan miller, Swati Moitra, Samira Nadkarni, Indira Neill Hoch, Sam Pack, Rukmini Pande, Deepa Sivarajan, Al Valentín

INDEX

acafan, 65. See also researcher identity

activism (fan). See campaign (fan)

adoption: of Navajo children, 32, 43–46

affect, 19, 27, 71, 78, 100, 126, 130

African American, 18, 20–21, 27, 86, 125, 186, 192; history, 127–132. See also Blackness

agency, 75, 128, 140

Alonso, Axel, 181

Anderson, Benedict, 169

Anglo (identity): responses to reception study, 32, 35–37, 39–41

anime (fandom), 73, 96

anonymity, 96–99, 109, 120. See also kink meme (fan community)

anthropology: and audience reception, 29; of mass media, 29, 31

anti-fan: anti-diversity fan, 182–193. See also Marvel (comics)

Archive of Our Own (AO3), 98–99, 102, 110, 114–117, 120, 154, 157, 159, 163

Arneson, Dave, 137

assemblage, 110–111, 119–120

audience, 17–18, 29–31, 73, 76, 83, 88–89, 117, 121, 126, 129, 131, 139, 151, 154, 173, 181, 183–185, 188, 193, 197, 200; Latino/a, 169–170, 172–173; Navajo, 32–33; white, 22–23, 33, 107, 189. See also fan (identity)

authenticity, 152, 161–162, 193; in depiction of Navajo life, 42, 44–46; of gamers, 196–201, 203–206

authorship: cultural, 32; and filmmaker identity, 41, 42

avatar (video game), 110, 113–114

Avatar: The Last Airbender, 122, 124

Bacon-Smith, Camille, 17, 112

Baym, Nancy, 17

Beharie, Nicole, 18, 21, 26

bilingual/ism, 165, 173, 180

BioWare, 110, 114. See also Dragon Age

Black Lightning, 153, 156–157, 162; lack of fan engagement, 157

Black Lives Matter, 26, 106, 127, 189

Black Panther (comic), 185–187

blackface, 65, 69–71, 73, 77, 125

Blackness, 53, 69, 70, 73–75, 105–106, 130, 134, 188–189, 198–1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword For All Fankind
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Terminology
• Introduction
• One. Methodologies
• Two. Otherness
• Three. Affirmative/Transformative
• Four. Identity/Authenticity
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series List