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"Wasted" is the breakout book from award-winning journalist Eric Woodyard, a native of Flint, Michigan. Woodyard tells a fictional tale about Cam Anderson, who struggles as a functional alcoholic in denial. At work, Cam is a fun, easy-going person that grinds hard in the daytime. At nighttime he morphs into a completely different character: a party animal who overdoes it when he drinks, sleeping with as many women as possible without thinking about the consequences until he gets himself into a situation where he has to decide if getting "wasted" is more important than seeing his life go to...

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-breed.”    The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial...