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Ethnic humor in multiethnic America /David Gillota.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461944768
  • 9781299953246
  • 9780813561509
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN6149 .E846 2013
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Contents:
"Just us": African American humor in multiethnic America -- The new Jewish blackface: ethnic anxiety in contemporary Jewish humor -- "Cracker, please": toward a white ethnic humor -- Imagining diversity: corporate multiculturalism in the children's film and the situation comedy -- Comedy without borders? toward a multiethnic humor -- Conclusion: emerging ethnic humor in multiethnic America.
Subject: David Gillota examines the ways in which contemporary comic works both reflect and participate in national conversations about race and ethnicity. Such well-known texts as Chappelle's Show, South Park, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, as well as numerous stand-up comedy acts, children's films, and situation comedies are analyzed to explore how various humorists respond to multiculturalism and the increasing diversity of the American population.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN6149.83 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn859537618

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the boundaries of American ethnic humor -- "Just us": African American humor in multiethnic America -- The new Jewish blackface: ethnic anxiety in contemporary Jewish humor -- "Cracker, please": toward a white ethnic humor -- Imagining diversity: corporate multiculturalism in the children's film and the situation comedy -- Comedy without borders? toward a multiethnic humor -- Conclusion: emerging ethnic humor in multiethnic America.

David Gillota examines the ways in which contemporary comic works both reflect and participate in national conversations about race and ethnicity. Such well-known texts as Chappelle's Show, South Park, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, as well as numerous stand-up comedy acts, children's films, and situation comedies are analyzed to explore how various humorists respond to multiculturalism and the increasing diversity of the American population.

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