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To Be Real Av Lanita (associate Professor Of American Studies & Ethnicity And Anthropology Associate Professor Of American Studies & Ethnicity

To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy examines Black standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity¿in essence, appeals to "realness" and "real Blackness"¿emerge as a cultural imperative in African American culture. Ethnographic observations and interviews with Black comedians ground this telling, providing a narrative arc of key historical moments in the newmillennium. Readers will understand how and why African American comics invoke "realness" to qualify nationalist 9/11 discourses and grapple with the racial entailments of the war, overcome a sense of racial despair in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, critique Michael Richards'' ["Kramer''s"] notorious rant at TheLaugh Factory and subsequent attempts to censor their use of the n-word, and reconcile the politics of a "real" in their own and other Black folks'' everyday lives. Additionally, readers will hear through audience murmurs, hisses, and

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Collision Of Worlds Av David M. (associate Professor Of Archaeology Anthropology And Latin American Studies Associate Professor Of Archaeology Anthrop

Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cort¿joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It...

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For God And Liberty Av Pamela (associate Professor Of History And Latin American Latino And Caribbean Studies Associate Professor Of History And Latin

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on...

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American Holocaust Av David E. (professor Of American Studies Professor Of American Studies University Of Hawaii Manoa) Stannard

Arguing that the European and white American destruction of the native American people was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world, Stannard attempts to set the records straight on what befell American Indians over the last five centuries.

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Ancient Greek Athletics Av Charles H. (associate Professor Classical Studies Associate Professor Classical Studies Western University Ontario) Stockin

The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture,...

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To Be Real Av Lanita (associate Professor Of American Studies & Ethnicity And Anthropology Associate Professor Of American Studies & Ethnicity

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