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Ethnic humor in multiethnic America / David Gillota.

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David Gillota examines the ways in which contemporary comic works both reflect and participate in national conversations about race and ethnicity. Such well-known texts as Chappelle's Show, South Park, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, as well as numerous stand-up comedy acts, children&#...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gillota, David, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Ethnic wit and humor > United States > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
Wit and humor > Social aspects > United States.
American wit and humor.
Ethnic wit and humor.
Wit and humor > Social aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the boundaries of American ethnic humor
  • "Just us": African American humor in multiethnic America
  • The new Jewish blackface: ethnic anxiety in contemporary Jewish humor
  • "Cracker, please": toward a white ethnic humor
  • Imagining diversity: corporate multiculturalism in the children's film and the situation comedy
  • Comedy without borders? toward a multiethnic humor
  • Conclusion: emerging ethnic humor in multiethnic America.

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