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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Language: en
Pages: 638
Pages: 638
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-01 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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
Language: en
Pages: 664
Pages: 664
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher:
After generations of stereotypes and neglect, this hidden tradition finally emerged before general audiences with Richard Pryor in the 1970s.
Language: en
Pages: 724
Pages: 724
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises