Jokes from Black Folks
Title | Jokes from Black Folks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN |
The Official Black Folks White Folks Joke Book
Title | The Official Black Folks White Folks Joke Book PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Wilde |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | African American wit and humor |
ISBN |
Black Jokes About White Folks
Title | Black Jokes About White Folks PDF eBook |
Author | Mad Comedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Even during the dark days of slavery, our courageous Black ancestors used comedy to lift their spirits, often making fun of the white people subjugating them. Even today, brave Black men and women risking their lives in the streets fighting white supremacy need a little humor to lift their spirits. This book is for you! MAD COMEDY has collected hundreds of hilarious jokes by top Black comics about the antics of our favorite clowns: white people! Only white people think bike riding is a sport. I know a crackhead who could win the Tour de France on a stolen Barbie bike. What do you call a black man selling drugs? A pharmacist, you racist. How many white people does it take to replace a light bulb? One to hold the bulb, and the rest to screw the whole world. Batman is the story of a rich white dude who beats people up and the cops just let him do it. Think about it: Batman's superpower is white privilege. A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to benefit Black causes.
Official Black Folks White Folks Joke Book
Title | Official Black Folks White Folks Joke Book PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Wilde |
Publisher | Pinnacle Books |
Pages | |
Release | 1988-09-01 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781558170322 |
The Official Black Folks Joke Book
Title | The Official Black Folks Joke Book PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Wilde |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | African American wit and humor |
ISBN | 9780523415284 |
The Official Black Folks Joke Book ; The Official White Folks Joke Book
Title | The Official Black Folks Joke Book ; The Official White Folks Joke Book PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Wilde |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Ethnic wit and humor |
ISBN |
The Souls of White Jokes
Title | The Souls of White Jokes PDF eBook |
Author | Raúl Pérez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781503632332 |
A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke. Having a good sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended--laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense. The insinuation is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly politicized social world. But do the stakes change when the jokes are racist? In The Souls of White Jokes Raúl Pérez argues that we must genuinely confront this unsettling question in order to fully understand the persistence of anti-black racism and white supremacy in American society today. W.E.B. Du Bois's prescient essay The Souls of White Folk was one of the first to theorize whiteness as a social and political construct based on a feeling of superiority over racialized others--a kind of racial contempt. Pérez extends this theory to the study of humor, connecting theories of racial formation to parallel ideas about humor stemming from laughter at another's misfortune. Critically synthesizing scholarship on race, humor, and emotions, he uncovers a key function of humor as a tool for producing racial alienation, dehumanization, exclusion, and even violence. Pérez tracks this use of humor from blackface minstrelsy to contemporary contexts, including police culture, politics, and far-right extremists. Rather than being harmless fun, this humor plays a central role in reinforcing and mobilizing racist ideology and power under the guise of amusement. The Souls of White Jokes exposes this malicious side of humor, while also revealing a new facet of racism today. Though it can be comforting to imagine racism as coming from racial hatred and anger, the terrifying reality is that it is tied up in seemingly benign, even joyful, everyday interactions as well-- and for racism to be eradicated we must face this truth.