TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillota,David
TI  - Ethnic humor in multiethnic America /David Gillota
SN  - 9781461944768
AV  - PN6149 .E846 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Ethnic wit and humor
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American wit and humor
KW  - Wit and humor
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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