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Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled,
intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses. Rolling centers
Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that
it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the
comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double
consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we
know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often
entirely different than for white viewers. Contributors to this
volume cover a range of cases representing African American humor
across film, television, digital media, and stand-up as Black comic
personas try to work within, outside, and around culture, tilling
for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial interplay of
Blackness, white audiences, and comedy; satire and humor on media
platforms; and the production of Blackness within comedy through
personal stories and interviews of Black production crew and
writers for television comedy. Rolling illuminates the inner
workings of Blackness and comedy in media discourse.
Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled,
intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses. Rolling centers
Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that
it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the
comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double
consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we
know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often
entirely different than for white viewers. Contributors to this
volume cover a range of cases representing African American humor
across film, television, digital media, and stand-up as Black comic
personas try to work within, outside, and around culture, tilling
for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial interplay of
Blackness, white audiences, and comedy; satire and humor on media
platforms; and the production of Blackness within comedy through
personal stories and interviews of Black production crew and
writers for television comedy. Rolling illuminates the inner
workings of Blackness and comedy in media discourse.
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