Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0304
Punyashree Panda
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0301
K. Wood
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0292
Kimberley J. Hannah-Prater
{"title":"The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy","authors":"Kimberley J. Hannah-Prater","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84594254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205
Editorial| September 05 2023 On Second Thought Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (2): 205–210. https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation On Second Thought. Studies in American Humor 5 September 2023; 9 (2): 205–210. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressStudies in American Humor Search Advanced Search Editors:While reading Benjamin Schwartz’s excellent essay “‘Making Such Spaces … Where None Previously Existed’: Interstitial Wit in Fran Ross’s Oreo,” I was struck most by how Schwartz deftly ties the novel’s use of humor to the notion of community building.1 Schwartz argues that the “power that humor affords Oreo is inextricably related, as the acronym ‘WIT’ suggests, to the fact that as a Black girl she occupies an in-between space, what Hortense Spillers refers to as the ‘interstices’ of American culture” (16). It’s in those “interstices,” Schwartz goes on to suggest, that humor can open up space to communicate shared experiences and create a sense of affinity among minoritized groups.This argument is especially compelling given that such groups are often framed as being mutually exclusive and that humor is often used to target and emphasize difference. Even for members of a minoritized identity, telling jokes about... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0310
Samantha Silver
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0178
Evan Cooper
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0188
Teresa Prados-Torreira
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0013
Benjamin Schwartz
ABSTRACT:This article explores how Fran Ross’s 1974 novel Oreo uses humor to challenge static notions of Black, Jewish, and American identity. Through her mock heroic quest, Oreo’s eponymous protagonist develops WIT (“Way of the Interstitial Thrust”), a system of self-defense that draws on her multifaceted identity as a Jewish, African American woman and that she uses to successfully navigate spaces that threaten her with physical violence and symbolic erasure. In its hilarious exploration of the complexity and commodification of identity in the late twentieth century United States, Oreo provides a still-relevant example of how humor can create new spaces for minoritized subjects who exist in the “interstices” of the landscape of American cultural production.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0001
David Gillota
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0004
Lisa M. Beringer, Terrence T. Tucker, Joseph Litvak, Derek C. Maus, Juniper Ellis
Editors: Reading Grace Heneks’s analysis of the Black satirical critique of the white embrace of postracialism in “‘We Cool?’ Satirizing Whiteness in Obama-Era Black Satire” made me think of Richard Pryor’s lament in his 1976 routine Bicentennial Prayer: “How long will this bullshit go on?”1 Heneks’s article documents the practices of casual racism, drawing on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s concept of new racism, thereby pointing to the fine line between white liberalism and white supremacy: the white liberal fears being called racist; the white supremacist fears a truly postracial and pluralistic society. Both choose silence to maintain the status quo. White claims that we have entered an era of postracialialty—white claims, because Black folks know the idea is “bullshit”—shut down needed discussions of ongoing racial hierarchy and seek to make invisible the harm done by racism to those deemed “other” to whiteness. Heneks’s analysis of Key & Peele’s “Apologies” sketch and Black-ish’s scenes from the episodes “Lemons” and “Gap Year” offer an exploration of the fantasy that exists in white minds that underlies the white liberal fear of being called racist. By centering the subjectivity and humanity of Black people in these vignettes, the satirist is able, Heneks argues, to flip the narrative and deconstruct the fantasy of white liberalism, which is often (un) wittingly supportive of white supremacy. Most intriguing to me about “Apologies” is that in it Key and Peele are trying to have a conversation about Game of Thrones—a fantasy about white nobility and power structures—but they are repeatedly interrupted by white people trying to assert their “coolness.” I wish Heneks had pushed harder
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