1st Edition
The Satire of the New Black Renaissance Open-Source Blackness
Introduction
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Chapter One: Theory and History: Humor, Race, and Identity in (African) American Culture
Humor, Irony, and Satire in the American Public Sphere
Emotional and Intellectual Dimensions of Black Humor
(Cognitive) Diversity, The Science of Multiple Subjectivities, and Race
The Path to the New Black Renaissance
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Chapter Two: Literature: Anteceding Open-Source Blackness: Erasure (2001) and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival Everett
The Forceful Racialization of Art
Fighting Against the “Racial Optic”
De-Essentializing Black English
A Need for the Comic Perspective
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Chapter Three: Film: Justin Simien’s Dear White People (2014) and the Introduction of Open-Source Blackness Into Mainstream American Culture
Satirical Taxonomy of Racial Micro-Aggressions
Humor and Irony in Race-Related Campus Activism
Dear White People in the Context of Black American Film and Comic Tradition
Intergroup Contact, Parasocial Relationships, and Race Representation
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Chapter Four: Digital Humanities: Multimedia Satire by Baratunde Thurston
Rewriting Race and Identity Through Humor and Technology
Thurston and Kwame Anthony Appiah: Echoing Scholarship Through Satire
Embodying Multiperspectivity
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Coda: Open-Source Blackness: Redefining African American Identity Through Humor, Culture, And Technology
Biography
Kamil Chrzczonowicz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of North American Cultures and Literatures, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Promoting his fields of study, he co-founded the Humor Lab UW research group, published on the intersections of race and satire in scholarly monographs, and wrote on the comic aspects of literary classics in the UW’s "Masters of American Literature" book series.
