{"id":54418,"date":"2017-07-08T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54418"},"modified":"2017-07-09T03:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T03:15:37","slug":"spider-man-homecoming-having-a-biracial-love-interest-for-peter-is-monumental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54418","title":{"rendered":"‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Having A Biracial Love Interest For Peter Is Monumental"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Having A Biracial Love Interest For Peter Is Monumental<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bustle<\/a>
\n2017-07-07<\/p>\n

Olivia Truffaut-Wonga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSony Pictures Releasing<\/small><\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em> isn’t just bringing Spider-Man<\/a> back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> \u2014 it’s bringing diversity with it. Not only is a huge chunk of the movie’s supporting cast not white, but Homecoming<\/em> provides the MCU with the universe’s first prominent women of color<\/a>, Liz<\/a> (Laura Harrier<\/a>) and Michelle (Zendaya<\/a>). Moreover, with Liz, Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em><\/a> introduces Marvel’s first biracial love interest<\/a>. Yes, for the first time in the entire MCU, the white hero is involved in an interracial relationship, and this could not be more important when it comes to the representation of women of color on-screen.<\/p>\n

You see, Homecoming<\/em> marks the first MCU film with two prominent female characters of color and two prominent biracial characters. This distinction might sound unimportant, but to the many biracial fans out there, it actually means a lot, because it expands diversity in the MCU beyond easily defined ethnic boxes. In big studio movies, biracial characters are rare, and tend to appear only when being biracial is a part of the story. For the most part, major films stick to easily defined ethnic categories \u2014 black, white, Asian, Latinx, etc. The fact that Homecoming<\/em> has two biracial female supporting characters and doesn’t make their race part of their storyline is monumental, not just for Marvel, but for Hollywood overall…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spider-Man: Homecoming isn’t just bringing Spider-Man back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe \u2014 it’s bringing diversity with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8413,14646,8,20],"tags":[19003,27224,27226,27223,7102,27225],"class_list":["post-54418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-communications","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bustle","tag-laura-harrier","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-olivia-truffaut-wonga","tag-spider-man","tag-zendaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54420,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54418\/revisions\/54420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}