IMAGENS DE RAÇA E TERROR RACIAL NOS COMICS

X-MEN, ESPAÇOS DA DIFERENÇA E IMAGINÁRIO NORTE-AMERICANO

Abstract

This text aims to show the emergence and maintenance of racial patterns in recente U. S. History from the images of race and racial terror in the X-Men comics. Comparing the concept of race in differente moments of the X-Men stories and demonstrating its function in the re-construction of Americans Identity and racial imaginary, we look at the possibilities of historical analysis and the use of comic books as sources for social and cultural History. From a position of a history of images of comics, we’ll show how the idea of  race was constructed visually and how the critical of this proposition itself its maintenance in the last Fifty years of American History.