Challenging Stereotypes: Prosocial Racial Humor in Luís Valdez’s Actos

IF 0.9 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0227

Mark Hama

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:This article examines how Luís Valdez uses prosocial racial humor in his collection of short plays to challenge the anti-Mexican racism directed against the strikers during the 1965–1970 Delano, California, grape strike as well as to address many of the other social issues faced by the Chicano community during this period. Drawing on social psychology research on the dynamics of racial group identification and focusing on the acto entitled Los Vendidos, the article analyzes how Valdez and his Teatro Campesino created the set of conditions that allowed audience members to confront and overcome the negative effects of the racial stereotyping and ethnic slurs they were experiencing on the picket lines and elsewhere and in the process to raise their Chicano cultural and political consciousness.

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挑战刻板印象:Luís Valdez的Actos中的亲社会种族幽默

摘要:本文考察Luís瓦尔迪兹如何在他的小剧集中运用亲社会的种族幽默来挑战1965-1970年加州德拉诺葡萄大罢工期间针对罢工者的反墨西哥种族主义，以及这一时期墨西哥裔美国人社区面临的许多其他社会问题。通过对种族群体认同动态的社会心理学研究，并以《Los Vendidos》为重点，本文分析了Valdez和他的Campesino剧院如何创造一系列条件，使观众能够面对和克服他们在纠察线和其他地方经历的种族刻板印象和种族诽谤的负面影响，并在此过程中提高他们的奇卡诺文化和政治意识。

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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1.40

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90.00%

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期刊介绍： Welcome to the home of Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association. Founded by the American Humor Studies Association in 1974 and published continuously since 1982, StAH specializes in humanistic research on humor in America (loosely defined) because the universal human capacity for humor is always expressed within the specific contexts of time, place, and audience that research methods in the humanities strive to address. Such methods now extend well beyond the literary and film analyses that once formed the core of American humor scholarship to a wide range of critical, biographical, historical, theoretical, archival, ethnographic, and digital studies of humor in performance and public life as well as in print and other media. StAH’s expanded editorial board of specialists marks that growth. On behalf of the editorial board, I invite scholars across the humanities to submit their best work on topics in American humor and join us in advancing knowledge in the field.