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Through laughing, lying, and signifying, the underground tradition of African American humor continues to transform American culture. This comprehensive history discusses blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show; folktales, race records, and all-black shows and film; Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx; Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Eddie Murphy. Here, in a second edition featuring a new afterword, is the definitive account of how black humor has sustained African Americans throughout their history. --
Introduction -- Prologue: Black humor...what it is -- Part One: Antecedents. Chapter One. Slavery..."don't nobody know my name but me" ; Chapter Two: Minstrelsy...the die is cast -- Part Three: Black minstrelsy to Vaudeville...black on black -- Part Two: The outside. African-American comedy on stage, screen, and radio. Chapter Four: Vaudeville and early twentieth-century Black humor...the blackening of America ; Chapter Five: Hollywood's silent years...the curse of a nation ; Chapter Six: The new negro: Harlem and Hollywood...exotics, imposters, and other misshapen identities ; Chapter Seven: Radio and early television...racial ventriloquy, black soaps and servants -- Part Three: The real side: Invisible lives and clandestine humor. Chapter Eight: Race records and Black films...sounds and visions in black and blue ; Chapter Nine: The Theatre Owners Booking Association and the Apollo Theatre...changing the joke and slipping the yoke ; Chapter Ten: Literary reflections of African-American humor...depictions of things unseen ; Chapter Eleven: Folklore and street humor..."if you grinnin', you in 'em" ; Chapter Twelve: The new comics...what you see is what you get ; Chapter Thirteen: Pryor and thereafter...on the real side.
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1994.
This paperback edition of On the Real Side is a slightly emended reproduction of the edition published in New York in 1994, with a new afterword by the author. -- From title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-632) and index.