Format:
xvii, 201 Seiten :
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Illustrationen.
ISBN:
978-0-19-087008-9
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978-0-19-087009-6
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in language race series
Content:
"This book examines African American standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity - in essence, appeals to "realness" and "real Blackness" - emerge as a cultural imperative in African American culture. Ethnographic observations and interviews with Black comedians ground this telling, providing a narrative arc of key historical moments in the new millennium. Readers will understand how and why African American comics invoke "realness" to: qualify nationalist 9/11 discourses and grapple with the racial entailments of the war, overcome a sense of racial despair in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, critique Michael Richards' ["Kramer's"] notorious rant at The Laugh Factory and subsequent attempts to censor their use of the n-word, and reconcile the politics of a "real" Black in Black folks' everyday lives via Kevin Hart's meteoric rise to global stardom.
Content:
Additionally, readers will hear through audience murmurs, hisses, and boos how beliefs about racial authenticity are intensely class-wrought and fraught. Moreover, they will appreciate how context remains ever critical to when and why African American comics and audiences lobby for and/or lampoon jokes that differentiate the "real" from the "fake" or "Black folks" from "niggahs." To Be Real's take-home point is this: context and racial vulnerability are critical to understanding how and why allusions to "racial authenticity" persist in the African American comedic and cultural imagination. During watershed moments of crisis (e.g., 9/11, Hurricane Katrina) or incessant hope (e.g., 2008 Presidential election), African American stances around racial authenticity bespeak a need to define who and whose they are, if only to contend with the enduring significance of race.
Content:
By consciously valuing a "real"- as opposed to strict notions of "the real" (which too often essentialize, objectify, and exclude) - this book reveals why authenticity matters to African Americans and, arguably all of us, when the proverbial -ish hits the fan and then, too, when things are calm and still"--
Note:
"The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony and Tragedy of 9/11 -- "Why we gotta be refugees?": Empathizing Authenticity in African American Hurricane Katrina Humor -- On Michael Richards, Racial Authenticity, and the N-Word -- "It's about to get real": Kevin Hart as a Modern-Day Trickster -- Humor, Me: A (Tentative) Conclusion
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780190870126
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schwarze
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Stand-Up Comedy
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Ethnische Identität
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