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Introduction Chapter 1: "The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony and Tragedy of 9/11 Chapter 2: "Why we gotta be refugees?": Empathizing Authenticity in African American Hurricane Katrina Humor Chapter 3: On Michael Richards, Racial Authenticity, and the N-Word Chapter 4: "It's about to get real": Kevin Hart as a Modern-Day Trickster Chapter 5: Humor, Me: A (Tentative) Conclusion Bibliography Appendix

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
    Publication Date: 21/12/2022
    ISBN13: 9780190870089, 978-0190870089
    ISBN10: 0190870087
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    Communication studies Sociolinguistics Social and cultural anthropology

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    Introduction Chapter 1: "The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony and Tragedy of 9/11 Chapter 2: "Why we gotta be refugees?": Empathizing Authenticity in African American Hurricane Katrina Humor Chapter 3: On Michael Richards, Racial Authenticity, and the N-Word Chapter 4: "It's about to get real": Kevin Hart as a Modern-Day Trickster Chapter 5: Humor, Me: A (Tentative) Conclusion Bibliography Appendix

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