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03334aam a2200445 i 4500 001 1D5520B0803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 210514s2022 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021015637 020 $a 1978824254 020 $a 9781978824256 020 $a 1978824246 020 $a 9781978824249 035 $a (OCoLC)1247203481 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1590.B53 $b M26 2022 082 00 $a 791.089/96073 $2 23 100 1 $a Manning, Brandon J, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Played out : $b the Race Man in twenty-first-century satire / $c Brandon J. Manning. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a vii, 180 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial ideologies as they reclaimed the ability to represent themselves in the changing landscape of the early 20th century. Marginalized communities routinely use humor, specifically satire, to subvert the political, social, and cultural realities of race and racism in America. Through contemporary examples in popular culture and politics, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, in Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire author Brandon J. Manning examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men. In focusing on vulnerability these satirists attend to America's most basic assumptions about Black men. Contemporary Black satire is a highly visible and celebrated site of black masculine self-expression. Black satirists leverage this visibility to trouble discourses on race and gender in the Post-Civil Rights era. More specifically, contemporary Black satire uses laughter to decenter Black men from the socio-political tradition of the Race Man"-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Please let me be misunderstood -- Of our satirical strivings -- Neoliberalism and the funny Race Man -- Ingergrationist intimacies -- The president and his translator -- Conclusion: Beyond the funny Race Man. 650 0 $a African Americans in the performing arts. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Satire, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Race identity. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. 650 7 $a African Americans in the performing arts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799740 650 7 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799627 650 7 $a African Americans $x Race identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799666 650 7 $a American fiction $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807049 650 7 $a Satire, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01105681 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030946.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1D5520B0803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search