African American humor : the best Black comedy from slavery to today /
Watkins (an author, he was an editor at the New York Times Book Review) has compiled an anthology of Black humor that, perhaps inadvertently, reveals much about changes in American as well as Black society. The lengthy excerpts are printed with little prefatory material, though a historical introduc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
Lawrence Hill Books,
©2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Library of Black America.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Watkins (an author, he was an editor at the New York Times Book Review) has compiled an anthology of Black humor that, perhaps inadvertently, reveals much about changes in American as well as Black society. The lengthy excerpts are printed with little prefatory material, though a historical introduction is provided for each chapter. An appendix contains a list of authors with short biographies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Incorporated, Portland, OR. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 374 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1556524307 9781556524301 1556524315 9781556524318 |