The Book of Negro Humor
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. Graham Cruickshank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mel Watkins |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : African American proverbs |
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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 over the past two centuries. It includes routines and writings from such luminaries as Bert Williams, Butterbeans & Susie, Stepin Fetchit, Moms Mabley, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Redd Foxx, Ishmael Reed, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Martin Lawrence, and Chris Rock. This anthology includes classic stage routines, literary examples, and witty quotations presented in their entirety.
Author | : James David Corrothers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Beatty |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1596917164 |
Edited by the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic anthology of the funniest writing by black Americans. This book is less a comprehensive collection than it is a mix-tape narrative dubbed by a trusted friend-a sampler of underground classics, rare grooves, and timeless summer jams, poetry and prose juxtaposed with the blues, hip-hop, political speeches, and the world's funniest radio sermon. The subtle musings of Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, and Harryette Mullen are bracketed by the profane and often loud ruminations of Langston Hughes, Darius James, Wanda Coleman, Tish Benson, Steve Cannon, and Hattie Gossett. Some of the funniest writers don't write, so included are selections from well-known yet unpublished wits Lightnin' Hopkins, Mike Tyson, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Selections also come from public figures and authors whose humor, although incisive and profound, is often overlooked: Malcolm X, Suzan-Lori Parks, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, and W.E.B. Dubois. Groundbreaking, fierce, and hilarious, this is a necessary anthology for any fan or student of American writing, with a huge range and a smart, political grasp of the uses of humor.
Author | : James D. Corrothers |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781497839694 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
Author | : Mel Watkins |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1569767602 |
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 presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American public with Richard Pryor in the 1970s. But Pryor was not the first popular comic to present authentically black humor. Watkins offers surprising reassessments of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy, and Bill Cosby.
Author | : Edmund Valentine White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Schechter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Pickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |