Output list
Book chapter
Cultural Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Humor
Published 2024
De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies, 221 - 238
Book chapter
Published 2022
The Souls of White Jokes, 1 - 21
Book chapter
Epilogue RACIST HUMOR AND THE CULT(URE) OF WHITENESS
Published 2022
The Souls of White Jokes, 159 - 172
Book chapter
AMUSED RACIAL CONTEMPT, OR A THEORY OF WHITE RACIST HUMOR
Published 2022
The Souls of White Jokes, 22 - 49
Book chapter
BLUE HUMOR The Racist Insults and Injuries of the Police
Published 2022
The Souls of White Jokes, 85 - 122
Book chapter
PRESIDENT CHIMP The Politics of Amused Racial Contempt
Published 2022
The Souls of White Jokes, 123 - 158
Book chapter
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT The Violent Racist Humor of the Far Right
Published 2022
The Souls of White Jokes, 50 - 84
Book chapter
Published 11/15/2021
Taking a Stand, 103
There is a tendency to regard comedians not only as joke tellers, but as well-intended “truth-tellers.”² Increasingly, comedians are viewed as “cultural mediators” and “public intellectuals” who serve as moral guides to steer us “through the cultural debates of the moment” by enlightening the public with their comic cultural criticism.³ This current rendering of comedians as public intellectuals and cultural mediators largely reproduces a celebratory narrative that has become the dominant framework for understanding contemporary comedy,⁴ where comics are often regarded as “heroes” who speak “truth to power.”⁵ At the same time, over the last decade there has been growing
Book chapter
Published 2019
Unwatchable, 307 - 311
Book chapter
Published 10/14/2016
Standing up, speaking out: stand-up comedy and the rhetoric of social change