The rhetoric of racist humour
Subtitle: US, UK and global race joking
By: Simon Weaver
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781409420118; 9781409420125
Subjects: Social aspects; Rhetoric; Wit and humor; Racism; Joking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 193-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rhetoric of humour; title: Humour and order-building; title: Embodied racism and US internet joking; title: Cultural racism and British stand-up comedy; title: Reverse discourse in Black comic performance; title: Reverse discourse in Asian comic performance; title: Liquid racism and the ambiguities of Ali G; title: Liquid racism and the Danish prophet Muhammad cartoons.