Mixed-Race Superheroes

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from  Ant-Man and the Wasp ’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-b