Lanita Jacobs

To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

During watershed moments of crisis or incessant hope, African Americans' varied stances around racial authenticity often bespeak a need to define who and whose they are, if only to contend with the enduring significance of race. In To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy, Lanita Jacobs analyzes a decade of Black standup comedy to understand "realness" and "real Blackness" as a cultural imperative in African American culture. 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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Language Rac
• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190870096
• ISBN-10: 0190870095
• Artikelnr.: 66162468

Autorenporträt

Lanita Jacobs is an Associate Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her recent research examines constructions of race in popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: "The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics
Confront the Irony and Tragedy of 9/11
* Chapter 2: "Why we gotta be refugees?": Empathizing Authenticity in
African American Hurricane Katrina Humor
* Chapter 3: On Michael Richards, Racial Authenticity, and the N-Word
* Chapter 4: "It's about to get real": Kevin Hart as a Modern-Day
Trickster
* Chapter 5: Humor, Me: A (Tentative) Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Appendix