African American humor : the best Black comedy from slavery to today / edited by Mel Watkins ; foreword by Dick Gregory.
Watkins (an author, he was an editor at the New York Times Book Review) has compiled an anthology of Black humor that, perhaps inadvertently, reveals much about changes in American as well as Black society. The lengthy excerpts are printed with little prefatory material, though a historical introduc...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
Lawrence Hill Books,
[2002]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Library of Black America.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Playin' the fool : slavery
- pt. 2. Lay my burden down : emancipation to the roaring twenties
- pt. 3. New day's a-comin' : the Harlem Renaissance to the fifties
- pt. 4. What you see is what you get : civil rights to the millennium.