To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy

by Lanita Jacobs

To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy examines Black standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity--in essence, appeals to "realness" and "real Blackness"--emerge as a cultural imperative in African American culture. Ethnographic observations and interviews with Black comedians ground this telling, providing a narrative arc of key historical moments in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190870087
• ISBN13: 9780190870089
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.6"