TABLE OF CONTENTS

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