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Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States

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Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States - Wood, Katelyn Hale
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Broadly, Cracking Up frames stand-up comedy as an important platform from which to examine citizenship in the United States, articulate Black feminist political thought, and subvert structures of power. Katelyn Hale Wood also champions comedic performance and theatre history as imperative contexts for advancing historical studies of race, gender, and sexuality. From the comedy routines popular on Black vaudeville circuits to stand-up on contemporary social media platforms, Cracking Up excavates an overlooked history of ...

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Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States 2021, University of Iowa Press

ISBN-13: 9781609387723

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