Crazy Funny: Popular Black Satire And The Method Of Madness (The Cultural Politics Of Media And Popular Culture)
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Paperback/English
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Description
This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional instability complicates the ways in which we think about racialized identity formation and the limits of socially accepted definitions of (in)sanity, it concentrates on the unique ability of the genre of b
