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How do twenty-first century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black Renaissance - a flowering of the 2000s and 2010s African American culture - and argues that its most potent tool is anti-essentialist satire. The study traces what Baratunde Thurston calls "Open-source Blackness," an ethos that prizes individuality, inclusivity, and remix.
To map this new terrain, this volume offers close readings of three signature works: Percival Everett's metafictional Erasure, Justin Simien's campus satire Dear White People, and Thurston's own multimedia endeavors - his memoir How to Be Black and the playful software experiments developed under the auspices of his company, Cultivated Wit.
Together, these texts show how literature, film, and technology fracture worn stereotypes and invite broader co-creation of (non-)racial identity. The result is the first sustained academic account of Open-source Blackness - of interest to students and scholars in literary, media, and cultural studies.
Contents
Introduction
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Chapter One: Theory and History
Humor, Race, and Identity in (African) American Culture
Humor, Irony, and Satire in the American Public Sphere
Emotional and Intellectual Dimensions of Black Humor
(Cognitive) Diversity, The Science of Multiple Subjectivities, and Race
The Path to the New Black Renaissance
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Chapter Two: Literature
Anteceding Open-Source Blackness: Erasure (2001) and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival Everett
The Forceful Racialization of Art
Fighting Against the "Racial Optic"
De-Essentializing Black English
A Need for the Comic Perspective
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Chapter Three: Film
Justin Simien's Dear White People (2014) and the Introduction of Open-Source Blackness Into Mainstream American Culture
Humor and Irony in Race-Related Campus Activism
Satirical Taxonomy of Racial Micro-Aggressions
Dear White People in the Context of Black American Film and Comic Tradition
Intergroup Contact, Parasocial Relationships, and Race Representation
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Chapter Four: Digital Humanities
Multimedia Satire by Baratunde Thurston
Rewriting Race and Identity Through Humor and Technology
Thurston and Kwame Anthony Appiah: Echoing Scholarship Through Satire
Embodying Multiperspectivity
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Coda
Open-Source Blackness: Redefining African American Identity Through Humor, Culture, And Technology
