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1 THE RACIAL POWER OF HUMOR

  • Raúl Pérez
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The Souls of White Jokes
This chapter is in the book The Souls of White Jokes
© 2022 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2022 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
  3. NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY xi
  4. 1 THE RACIAL POWER OF HUMOR 1
  5. 2 AMUSED RACIAL CONTEMPT, OR A THEORY OF WHITE RACIST HUMOR 22
  6. 3 HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT The Violent Racist Humor of the Far Right 50
  7. 4 BLUE HUMOR The Racist Insults and Injuries of the Police 85
  8. 5 PRESIDENT CHIMP The Politics of Amused Racial Contempt 123
  9. Epilogue RACIST HUMOR AND THE CULT(URE) OF WHITENESS 159
  10. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 173
  11. NOTES 179
  12. INDEX 207
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503632349-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
  3. NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY xi
  4. 1 THE RACIAL POWER OF HUMOR 1
  5. 2 AMUSED RACIAL CONTEMPT, OR A THEORY OF WHITE RACIST HUMOR 22
  6. 3 HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT The Violent Racist Humor of the Far Right 50
  7. 4 BLUE HUMOR The Racist Insults and Injuries of the Police 85
  8. 5 PRESIDENT CHIMP The Politics of Amused Racial Contempt 123
  9. Epilogue RACIST HUMOR AND THE CULT(URE) OF WHITENESS 159
  10. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 173
  11. NOTES 179
  12. INDEX 207
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