Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

New Books in African American Studies · Apr 8, 2021 · 50m

The election of Barack Obama propelled the idea of a post-racial United States, or that the country had moved beyond race as a defining feature of social difference and beyond racism as an everyday reality. Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan examines the ways in which African American comedians and cultural producers took aim at such claims through the lens of satire. In her book, Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty First Century (University of Illinois Press, 2020), Morgan demonstrates and argues for satire’s capacity for social justice through its expression of Black…