Ethnic Humor in Multiethnic America

Informationen zum Autor Gillota, David Klappentext When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselves, ethnic humor can work as a site of community building and resistance. David Gillota explores the ways in which contemporary comic works both reflect and participate in national conversations about race and ethnicity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Boundaries of American Ethnic Humor 1. "Just Us": African American Humor in Multiethnic America 2. The New Jewish Blackface: Ethnic Anxiety in Contemporary Jewish Humor 3. "Cracker, Please!": Toward a White Ethnic Humor 4. Imagining Diversity: Corporate Multiculturalism in the Children's Film and the Situation Comedy 5. Comedy with Borders?: Toward a Multiethnic Humor Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: David Gillota
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9780813561486
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6148-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology