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Superheroes have long served as metaphors for our society as a whole--highlighting our strengths as well as our weaknesses and fears. For some minority readers, superheroes have come to represent the saga of the disenfranchised, as caped crusaders like Superman and Batman confront themes of loneliness, hatred and "otherness." Unfortunately, until recently there haven’t been many minority characters in the Marvel and DC universes. The pages of comics books have been crowded with dashing white men. The Unmasked exhibit at MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americano) presents four Latinos who have explored the similarity between the difficulties Latin Americans experience daily and the battles that famous characters like the X-Men and Fantastic Four encounter monthly.
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