superman smashes the klan the graphic novel gene luen yang

For fanboys like me who are criticized for having our heads in other universes, this was a great example of a guy in a cape that had a real, positive effect on the world'. Yang stated that the book brought 'it up because it had a real-world effect. Yang learned about the radio serial in Freakonomics (2005) by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Though a fraction of what it was then, the ideas driving the Klan seem to be making a resurgence', adding that pushed him to revisit Superman's original battle with American bigotry: ' Superman Smashes the Klan is my attempt to talk about these modern issues in an old context'.

Gene Luen Yang in interview with Inverse states that 'the Klan didn't disappear.

The show damaged the group's reputation and led to a steep decline in membership from which the KKK never recovered'. In the radio serial, 'Superman exposed Ku Klux Klan codewords, rituals, and its bigotry-all based on intel collected by activist Stetson Kennedy-before a national audience. Superman Smashes the Klan is loosely based on a 16-part episode story-arc, 'Clan of the Fiery Cross', from the radio serial Adventures of Superman which ran from June to July 1946. Meanwhile, Superman's own efforts to assist the children are complicated by disturbing visions that prove to be linked to his own self-doubt and his confusion about his own self-identity. Tommy and Roberta then find themselves increasingly threatened while new friends such as Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane and Inspector Henderson try to help them and are then similarly targeted. Lee 'tries to distance his Chinese family from the black men who helped them in the aftermath of a Klan attack for fear of being grouped in with them'. The family is targeted by the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan-the Klan burns a cross on their lawn and attempts to firebomb their house. 'While Tommy joins a local baseball team and uses self-deprecating remarks to make friends (referring to his family as 'wontons' to his white peers), Roberta struggles to fit in'. The family faces 'overt and subtle racism as they settle into their new community' and the book focuses on the children, Tommy and Roberta (Roberta's true name is Lan-Shin but she uses the name Roberta 'for the ease of the white people around her'). Lee, starts a new job at the Metropolis Health Department. In 1946, the Lees, a Chinese-American family, move from Chinatown to the Metropolis suburbs in the wake of World War II after the father, Dr. It is a Superman story which is loosely based on the 1946 The Adventures of Superman radio show's story-arc 'Clan of the Fiery Cross'. Superman Smashes the Klan is a three-part superhero limited series comic book written by Gene Luen Yang with art by Gurihiru and published by DC Comics.

Superman smashes the klan the graphic novel gene luen yang