BLACK AND ASIAN AMERICAN STAND-UP COMEDY AS A REFLECTION AND CRITIQUE OF STRUCTURAL OPPRESSION IN OUR MEDIATED WORLD
VanDevere, Mariann J
0000-0002-0204-8564
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2020-07-27
Abstract
I analyze the performances of contemporary African American and Asian American comedians to explore how they create and deploy personae that complement their critiques of structural oppression. I examine how these personae are impacted by the use of media technology as both a performance tool and mode of distribution.