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Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire by Brandon J. Manning

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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.


About the Author
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.

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"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 *
"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 *
Left of Black | Brandon J. Manning on Black Satire * Left of Black Podcast, produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute *
"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 *
"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 *
Left of Black | Brandon J. Manning on Black Satire * Left of Black Podcast, produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute *



Book Information
ISBN 9781978824256
Author Brandon J. Manning
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 3g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 20mm

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