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Superheroes in comics and more recently in films and television have become increasingly popular and mainstream. As many popular characters are adapted to the big and small screens, increasingly diverse actors are being casts to portray them, sometimes delighting fans and sometimes angering them. This week, Milton Alan Turner talks about race in comics and the practice of racebending. When is it okay to change the race or ethnicity of a character and when is it not okay?
By Milton Alan Turner5
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Superheroes in comics and more recently in films and television have become increasingly popular and mainstream. As many popular characters are adapted to the big and small screens, increasingly diverse actors are being casts to portray them, sometimes delighting fans and sometimes angering them. This week, Milton Alan Turner talks about race in comics and the practice of racebending. When is it okay to change the race or ethnicity of a character and when is it not okay?