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Title: Mixed-Race Superman: Keanu, Obama & the Biracial Experience
Author: HARRIS WILL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/07/2019
Imprint: MELVILLE HOUSE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
At once personally revealing and politically astute, author Will Harris reflects on the lives of two very different supermen- Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves. In an era where a man endorsed by the Klu Klux Klan can sit in the White House, Harris argues that the mixed-race of both Obama and Reeves gave them a cultural shapelessness that was a form of resistance. Reeves, as Neo in The Matrix, portrayed the chosen one on the silver screen, while Obama, for a brief moment, was a real-life superhero on the world stage.
Drawing on his own personal experience and examining the way that these two men have been embedded in our collective consciousness, Harris asks what they can teach us about race and heroism.
ISBN: 9781612197890
Pages: 96