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and more are changing the tide and showing Hollywood that representation will lead to box office success.
For Muslims, this is something that is desperately needed. With the superhero medium being among the biggest platforms around, there is no better place to make a stand than there. Kamala Khan is not a CIA informant trying to root out terrorists, nor is she a caricature Muslim woman lost in a western world. She is exactly what many Americans teenagers are today. Much like Spider-Man, Kamala's primary day-to-day struggle is just life as a teenager from a middle-class family in urban America. Her experience is elevated and changed by her faith and cultural background.
Growing up as a Muslim American in the 1990s, I almost never felt I was seeing myself on screen. The few times where I would see a Muslim- or Arab-looking person, such as in 1992's , the only takeaway was that the heavier the accent, the more villainous the character was. Instead, I turned to superheroes, and naively assumed Superman was Muslim like me and that his tanned look in meant that he was brown like me as well.
Hollywood is in the middle of a potential paradigm shift in representation and superheroes are in a big way at the forefront. Marvel is moving forward with , which will be a chance for an Asian superhero to lead his own film. Mahershala Ali will likely be the first Muslim actor to lead a superhero film in
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