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2020 Program Sessions

253. Joy and Anguish: Laughter and Subversion in African American Satire

10:15 AM–11:30 AM Jan 10, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 616

Session Information

Presentations

1: ‘The Right to Laugh’: George Schuyler’s Democratic Humor and the Racial Politics of Joy

Thomas Hintze, U of California, Davis

2: The Joy of Laughing Unapologetically in Fran Ross’s Oreo

Diego Millan, Washington and Lee U

3: Resistance TV: In Search of Racism’s Off Switch

Lisa Beringer, Ivy Tech Community C, IN

Presider

Jeffrey Melton, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

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