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Abdullah, Omar.

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The Politics of Punchlines: Comedy as Decoy in a "Postracial" U.S.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Politics of Punchlines: Comedy as Decoy in a "Postracial" U.S./
Author:	Abdullah, Omar.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10619532
ISBN:	9780355451320

The Politics of Punchlines: Comedy as Decoy in a "Postracial" U.S.
Abdullah, Omar.

The Politics of Punchlines: Comedy as Decoy in a "Postracial" U.S. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 204 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2017.

This project explores oppositional performances by comedians of color (CoC) within discourses of U.S. postracialism and multiculturalism. Specifically, this project examines the ways CoC challenge structural racism within an era that claims such instances of minoritization to be aberrations. I argue that these CoC use strategic tactics---what I term decoy---to allow audiences to think about socio-political issues through apparently apolitical means. This project is informed by scholarship on critical race theory, performance studies, and media studies of U.S. racial politics and performances of political subversion. Methodologically, this project utilizes media/television studies, performance analysis, and interviews---to trace the ways CoC negotiate media industries in delivering transgressive performances within the post-network television landscape. I close read these oppositional performances and analyze the ways these acts circulate through popular media channels and affect audiences through audience/critical reviews and digital memes. I wish to show that these male CoC are mindful of the ways their work is legible to liberal discourses of U.S. racial politics which then affords them a commercial platform to produce oppositional acts of comedic decoy that momentarily transgresses the status-quo.

ISBN: 9780355451320Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

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