The History of Negro Humor in America
Author | : William Schechter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Schechter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robin R. Means Coleman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780815331254 |
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 depicted in Black situation comedies-from 1950's Beulah to contemporary series like Martin and Living Single.
Author | : Mel Watkins |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : African American proverbs |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : African American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Darryl Littleton |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781557836809 |
Describes the history of Black comedy from slavery through blackface, vaudeville, and the chitlin' circuit, to the present, interspersing commentary and criticism with interviews with Eddie Murphy, Marla Gibbs, and Chris Rock.
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 | : Nikki Giovanni |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780393318180 |
In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of African American women are presented here in all their written and spoken manifestations: autobiographies, novels, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales. The chapters proceed thematically, covering the church, love, civil rights, motherly advice, and much more.
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 | : E. V. White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436689403 |
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