Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices (Fandom & Culture)

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 Contents 7 Foreword: For All Fankind | Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 10 Acknowledgments 12 A Note on Terminology 14 Introduction 18 One. Methodologies 32 1. A Case for Critical Methods: Sense Making, Race, and Fandom | Elizabeth R. Hornsby 34 2. The Intended vs. the Unintended Audience: Deconstructing Positionality in Fandom | Sam Pack 46 3. The Absence of Race: Teaching Practices and Inclusion in the Fandom Classroom | Katherine Anderson Howell 65 Two. Otherness 80 4. Raceplay: Whiteness and Erasure in Cross-Racial Cosplay | Joan Miller 82 5. “But I’m a Foreigner Too”: Otherness, Racial Oversimplification, and Historical Amnesia in Japan’s K-pop Scene | Miranda Ruth Larsen 96 Three. Affirmative/Transformative 110 6. Alpha/Beta/Omega: Racialized Narratives and Fandom’s Investment in Whiteness | Angie Fazekas 112 7. Fill in the Blank: Customizable Player Characters and Video Game Fandom Practice | Indira Neill Hoch 126 8. Waiting in the Wings: Inclusivity and the Limits of Racebending | Samira Nadkarni and Deepa Sivarajan 139 9. Understanding Good and Evil: The Influence of Fandom on Overcoming Reductive Racial Representations in Dungeons and Dragons | Carina Lapointe 153 Four. Identity/Authenticity 166 10. Whose Representation Is It Anyway? Contemporary Debates in Femslash Fandoms | Rukmini Pande and Swati Moitra 168 11. Jane the Virgen or Virgin? The Dis-United States of (Latino) Fandom | Jenni M. Lehtinen 181 12. “Not My Captain America”: Racebending, Reverse Discrimination, and White Panic in the Marvel Comics Fandom | McKenna James Boeckner, Monica Flegel, and Judith Leggatt 198 13. Real Love? Authenticity as Capital in Let’s Play Culture | Al Valentín 213 Contributors 224 Bibliography 228 Index 256

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

"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 this 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. Through this layered multiplicity, Coloring Outside the Lines asserts that no one answer or approach can sufficiently come to grips with the shifting categories of race, racism, and racial identity"-- Provided by publisher __Fandom, Now in Color__ __Jane the Virgin____Fandom, Now in Color__**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