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Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Mel Watkins
Categories: African American proverbs
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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This collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satire, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, and snaps documents the evolution of African American humor
On the Real Side
Language: en
Pages: 638
Authors: Mel Watkins
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-01 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show p
African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Robin R. Means Coleman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been
On the Real Side
Language: en
Pages: 664
Authors: Mel Watkins
Categories: Humor
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After generations of stereotypes and neglect, this hidden tradition finally emerged before general audiences with Richard Pryor in the 1970s.
Honey, Hush!
Language: en
Pages: 724
Authors: Nikki Giovanni
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises