African American humor
Subtitle: the best Black comedy from slavery to today
By: edited by Mel Watkins ; foreword by Dick Gregory
Contributors: Watkins, Mel, 1940-
Edition: 1st ed
Series: The library of Black America
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: African American wit and humor; American prose literature -- African American authors; African American proverbs; African Americans -- Quotations
Genres: Quotations
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Playin' the fool : slavery; title: pt. 2. Lay my burden down : emancipation to the roaring twenties; title: pt. 3. New day's a-comin' : the Harlem Renaissance to the fifties; title: pt. 4. What you see is what you get : civil rights to the millennium