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Can I Live?: Contemporary Black Satire and the State of Postmodern Double Consciousness
- Studies in American Humor
- Penn State University Press
- Series 4, Volume 2, Number 2, 2016
- pp. 266-279
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This article examines how the interrelationship between the postmodern condition and the post-racial myth has shaped the works of black satirists in the twenty-first century. The desire to erase race in American discourse—even as race remains a powerful ideological sign that operates in real, material ways to affect black life—has transformed the project of black satire in the new century. Focusing on selected sketches from Comedy Central’s