Episodes
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You know where black comedy began, donât you? It began on the slave ships (Richard Pryor, Bicentennial N-, 1976)
Slavery . . . is not funny. Like, its not funny, you know what I mean? But if you can make it funny? Like, you gotta make it real funny. (Keegan-Michael Key, 2015)
Episode includes the following: Dick Gregory, University of Iowa, Darwin Turner Lecture Series on Black Studies (1970); Richard Pryor (Bicentennial N-Word, 1976); Amber Ruffin, âWhy We Need White History Monthâ (The Amber Ruffin Show, 2021); Franny Choi, âWhiteness Walks into a Barâ (2016).
* Dick Gregory, 1970 (University of Iowa)
Scholarship/theory to help us along with these readings/conversations:
Morgan, Danielle Fuentes. Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century. (University of Illinois UP, 2020)
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Ames, Bill. Texas Trounces the Leftâs War on History (Taylor Publishing, 2021)
On Sandra Cisneros . . .
I talk a lot about some undue and infuriating hate thrown at the beloved and brilliant Sandra Cisneros, from one of the âMomsâ in the group Ames gleefully calls the âMomâs Projectâ . . . she says Cisneros is being included in the third grade curriculum and âshe writes erotic poetry!â). I talk about book covers, believing for sure the book included (unnamed in her written comment to the board) must be The House on Mango Street but also allow for the distant possibility that somehow for some reason the second exists somewhere in the orbit of this Garland mother and her three children . . .
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street (1983)
The controversial covers of her book of powerful, empowering poetry . . . sexy, yes, beautiful and tastefulâbut in a pretty damn tame, to my mind.
Cisneros, Sandra. My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987)
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