Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
"In Laughing Mad, Bambi Haggins deftly uses comedy to complicate  the construction, performance, and masquerade of blackness especially as it  relates to racial politics, white supremacy, and black critique." --Herman Gray, author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the  Politics of Representation"This enormously valuable book will have a major impact on the  ways in which scholars and general readers alike think about race, gender,  and comic performance." --Valerie Smith, Princeton University