Race, Representation, and Satire

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
	Reference
Part I: Satire as Opposition
Chapter 1: Atonement: What Reparations and Racial Justice Look Like on Atlanta
	Tackling White Fragility
	Unpacking “Sheniqua”
	“Your Daughter’s Gonna be Okay”
	The Curse of Whiteness
	References
Chapter 2: #ColoradoBorderWall: Mimetic Discourse as Emancipation
	Memes as Rhetorical Texts
		Memes, Humor, and “LOLitics”
	A Critical Rhetorical Framework
	#ColoradoBorderWall: The Rhetorical Situation
	The #ColoradoBorderWall Memes
	A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of the #ColoradoBorderWall Memes
		Prototypes and Map Edits
		Humor as a Rhetorical Strategy
	The Emancipating Possibilities of Memes as Political Discourse
	References
Chapter 3: Reservation Dogs, Visual Sovereignty, Performative Indigeneity, and the Cultural Imperative of Native American-Produced Media
	Native Americans and Media in the Twenty-First Century
	Visual Sovereignty and the Cultural Imperative of Native American-Produced Media
	Visual Sovereignty and Reservation Dogs
	Performing Indigeneity
	A Cause for Celebration
	References
Chapter 4: “Voldemort under My Headscarf”: The Oppositional Muslim Gaze of We Are Lady Parts
	Muslims in Europe: The Threat to Mainland Identity
	“Ain’t No One Gonna Honour Kill My Sister but Me”
	“Fish and Chips for Tea”
	“I Want to Fuck a Terrorist”
	The Promise of Better Representation
	References
Chapter 5: Class is in Session: Abbott Elementary’s “Step Class” and the Oppositional Gaze as Counter-Hegemonic Practice
	Television, Satire, and the Black Community
		Primetime Television and Representation
		Satire and Representations of Race
			Satire, Sitcom, and Mockumentary
			Satire, Race, and Representation of Schools and Education
	The Oppositional Gaze and Black Feminist Thought
	Abbott Elementary’s “Step Class” as a Multimodal Discursive Text
		Black Women Are Human
		Black Girlhood
		Communities in School
	Black Mockumentaries as Counter-Hegemonic Discourses
	References
Chapter 6: Squid Game: South Korea’s View of Itself and the West
	The Transformation of Korea
	Squid Game
		Neoliberal Capitalism and the Get-Rich-Quick Zeitgeist
		Education, Religion, and Corruption
		Family, Mother, and Women
		Nostalgia versus the Effects of Neoliberal Capitalism
	Squid Game and the West
	References
Chapter 7: Alternative Media Representations: An Outsider’s Construction of Race on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
	The Rising Influence of Alternative Media
	The Daily Show
	Race and Representation
	The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: An Outsider Takes on Racism in America
		Trevor Noah on Reparations
		Donald Trump as America’s African President
		Donald Trump and Idi Amin on egotism:
	“A View His Competitors Couldn’t Deliver”
	References
Part II: Satire, Challenges, and Missed Opportunities
Chapter 8: Just Jokes? Dave Chappelle’s The Closer and the Intersectional Challenges of Satire
	Chappelle’s Show
	Decoding The Closer
		The Preferred Reading: Artistic Freedom and Expression
		The Oppositional Reading: Claiming Victimhood
		A Negotiated Reading: Critiquing White Fragility?
	Untangling Intersectionality
	References
Chapter 9: Latin History for Morons: Comedic Revisions and Race in the Work of John Leguizamo
	Leguizamo in a Nutshell
		Streaming Satire: A Close Reading of Latin History for Morons
		In Search of Latinx DNA: The Genetics of Laughter
		Fleshing Out “Ghetto Rage”
		The Limits of Satire: Pinning Down the Moving Punchline
	The Limits of Comedic Revisionism
	References
Chapter 10: Guess Who’s Muslim: Using Satire to Show What “Islam Truly Is”
	Framing Islam and Muslims in U.S. Media
	Spreading and Combatting Islamophobia in the Age of Digital Media
	Guess Who’s Muslim
	How Did U.S. Non-Muslims Perceive the Program?
	What “Islam Truly Is”
	References
Chapter 11: The Case of Kim’s Convenience: Cause for Celebration or a Cautionary Tale?
	Breaking Barriers? Asian Media Representations
	Decoding Representation in “Gay Discount”
	Stuart Hall and the Complexity of Media Representation
	Kim’s Convenience: A Cautionary Tale
	References
Chapter 12: Missed Opportunities: Discursively Dismantling the Hyper-Wokeness of the Sitcom Community
	Wokeness and Hyper-Wokeness
	Community as a Case Study
		“Football, Feminism and You”
		“Intro to Political Science”
		“Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing”
	Performativity, Superficiality, and Missed Opportunities
	References
Chapter 13: “Polo, Small but Tough”: Arab and Muslim Representations in a Volkswagen “Commercial”
	Representation, Encoding, and Decoding
	Media Representations of Arabs
	“Polo, Small but Tough”
	Analyzing the Commercial as If the Producer Is Volkswagen
		The Preferred Reading
		The Negotiated Reading
		The Oppositional Reading
	Analyzing the “Commercial” as Satire
		The Preferred Reading
		The Negotiated Reading
		The Oppositional Reading
	Rejecting Racist Media Messages
	References
Index
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