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IF 0.9 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0075

Lisa M. Beringer

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Abstract

African American sketch comedy uses satirical humor to decenter common white tropes of Blackness that are reinforced in media depictions through an intellectual and emotional approach that both frees satirists from traditional form and structure and that asks viewers—especially white ones—to question the root cause of their laughter and in turn their embrace of racist systems. Focusing on the harmfulness of racism and its intersection with sexism, this article argues that sketch comedy uses satirical humor to flip the script on commonly held stereotypes of Blackness, resist American racism, and in the end assert a claim for Black humanity in self-defined terms, offering humorous resistance as a modality that may get us closer to finding an “off switch” to racism.

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非裔美国人的小品喜剧用讽刺的幽默来消除在媒体描绘中被强化的白人对黑人的常见比喻，通过一种智慧和情感的方式，既把讽刺作家从传统的形式和结构中解放出来，又要求观众——尤其是白人——质疑他们笑的根源，进而质疑他们对种族主义制度的接受。本文关注种族主义的危害及其与性别歧视的交叉，认为小品喜剧用讽刺幽默来颠覆人们对黑人的普遍刻板印象，抵制美国种族主义，并最终以自我定义的方式主张黑人的人性，提供幽默的抵抗作为一种形式，可能会让我们更接近找到种族主义的“开关”。

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

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.