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Introduction: A joke to the eye
(Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic
Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America
From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976
Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century
Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock
Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.
(Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic
Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America
From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976
Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century
Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock
Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.