{"product_id":"to-be-real-truth-and-racial-authenticity-in-african-american-standup-comedy-paperback","title":"To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLanita Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdditionally, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanita Jacobs\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of American Studies \u0026amp; Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her recent research examines constructions of race in popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.6 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52695341367603,"sku":"9780190870089","price":63.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QlRib0NaZERoNWYySiswUDRXOVpsdz09.webp?v=1763089090","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/to-be-real-truth-and-racial-authenticity-in-african-american-standup-comedy-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}