Ra�l P�rez

Ra�l P�rez - The souls of white jokes: how racist humor fuels white supremacy - ra�l p�rez

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• A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor
• And a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke
• Having a good sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended--laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense
• The insinuation is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly politicized social world
• But do the stakes change when the jokes are racist
• In The Souls of White Jokes Ra�l P�rez argues that we must genuinely confront this unsettling question in order to fully understand the persistence of anti-black racism and white supremacy in American society today
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• Du Bois's prescient essay The Souls of White Folk was one of the first to theorize whiteness as a social and political construct based on a feeling of superiority over racialized others--a kind of racial contempt

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