![]() ![]() ![]() Lee "tries to distance his Chinese family from the black men who helped them in the aftermath of a Klan attack for fear of being grouped in with them". The family is targeted by the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan-the Klan burns a cross on their lawn and attempts to firebomb their house. "While Tommy joins a local baseball team and uses self-deprecating remarks to make friends (referring to his family as 'wontons' to his white peers), Roberta struggles to fit in". ![]() The family faces "overt and subtle racism as they settle into their new community" and the book focuses on the children, Tommy and Roberta (Roberta's true name is Lan-Shin but she uses the name Roberta "for the ease of the white people around her"). Lee, starts a new job at the Metropolis Health Department. In 1946, the Lees, a Chinese-American family, move from Chinatown to the Metropolis suburbs in the wake of World War II after the father, Dr. ![]() It is a Superman story which is loosely based on the 1946 The Adventures of Superman radio show's story-arc "Clan of the Fiery Cross". Superman Smashes the Klan is a three-part superhero limited series comic book written by Gene Luen Yang with art by Gurihiru and published by DC Comics. ![]()
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