The 'Other' laughs back: humour and resistance in anti-racist comedy

This article outlines the ‘reverse discourses’ of black, African-American and Afro-Caribbean comedians in the UK and USA. These reverse discourses appear in comic acts that employ the sign-systems of embodied and cultural racism but develop, or seek to develop, a reverse semantic effect. I argue the...

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Main Author: Simon Weaver
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/6679
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