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To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy (OXFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE RACE SERIES)

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To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy (OXFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE RACE SERIES)

Penned By Lanita Jacobs
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To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy examines Black standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity--in essence, appeals to realness and real Blackness--emerge as a cultural imperative in African American culture. Ethnographic observations and interviews with Black comedians ground this telling, providing a narrative arc of key historical moments in the new millennium. Readers will understand how and why African American comics invoke realness to qualify nationalist 9/11 discourses and grapple with the racial entailments of the war, overcome a sense of racial despair in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, critique Michael Richards' [Kramer's] notorious rant at The Laugh Factory and subsequent attempts to censor their use of the n-word, and reconcile the politics of a real in their own and other Black folks' everyday lives.Additionally, readers will hear through audience murmurs, hisses, and boos how beliefs about racial authenticity are intensely class-wrought and fraught. Moreover, they will appreciate how context remains ever critical to when and why African American comics and audiences lobby for and/or lampoon jokes that differentiate the real from the fake or Black folks from so-called niggahs. Context and racial vulnerability are critical to understanding how and why allusions to racial authenticity persist in the African American comedic and cultural imagination.

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Lanita Jacobs is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Lanita Jacobs enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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