Sass : Black women's humor and humanity /

"J Finley argues that through humor, and particularly sass, comedy functions as a medium for Black women to articulate and redress cultural, social, and political marginalization. Finley challenges mainstream and scholarly assumptions about sassiness as an identity or personality trait to which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Finley, J (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Series:	MF! Momentary futures in Black studies.
Subjects:	African American wit and humor. African American women comedians. African American women > Social life and customs. Comedy > Political aspects. Comédie > Aspect politique. Femmes comiques noires américaines. Humour noir américain. Noires américaines > Mœurs et coutumes.

Table of Contents:

Cut-eye and suck-teeth: theorizing Black women's sass as a discourse genre
Never to be conquered: sass, subjection, and Black women self-possessed
Hard-core laughter: sass and the politics of raunch
Butch lives matter: sass, masculinity, and failure
From awkward to dope: sass, interiority, and Black women's alternative comedy
Irreverence rules: sass and diaspora culture
You don't quit, bitch, unless you wanna quit.