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Brandon J. Manning

Played Out

The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire

Brandon J. Manning

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English
Rutgers University Press
11 February 2022
Art & Architecture; Other performing arts; Popular culture
Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial ideologies as they reclaimed the ability to represent themselves in the changing landscape of the early 20th century. Marginalized communities routinely use humor, specifically satire, to subvert the political, social, and cultural realities of race and racism in America. Through contemporary examples in popular culture and politics, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, in Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire author Brandon J. Manning examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men. In focusing on vulnerability these satirists attend to America's most basic assumptions about Black men. Contemporary Black satire is a highly visible and celebrated site of black masculine self-expression. Black satirists leverage this visibility to trouble discourses on race and gender in the Post-Civil Rights era. More specifically, contemporary Black satire uses laughter to decenter Black men from the socio-political tradition of the Race Man.
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Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   3g
ISBN:   9781978824256
ISBN 10:   1978824254
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

BRANDON J. MANNING is an assistant professor of Black literature and culture in the Department of English and a core faculty member in the comparative race and ethnic studies department at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

Reviews for Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire

Brandon Manning joins a group of brilliant scholars working on contemporary African American satire who have redefined scholarship on Black texts and Black bodies. His analyses of Percival Everett's recent work and President Barack Obama's role in this era cannot be missed. --Darryl Dickson-Carr author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance Played Out is an instantly canonical book. It tackles narratives of the Race Man, racial uplift, and respectability politics through the lens of satire to reveal the enduring mythos of acceptable Black social justice work. Through this brilliant, deeply researched book, Brandon Manning rescripts the pathways to social transformation and progress. --Robin R. Means Coleman author of African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor


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