The Rhetoric of Racist Humour

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Racist Humour written by Simon Weaver and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging exploration of modern, late modern and fluid or postmodern humour, Weaver draws on the social theory of Zygmunt Baumann to examine the linguistic structure of humour, arguing that, being similar to metaphor, it is prone to be convincing. Deconstructing the dominant form of racism aimed at black people in the US, and Asians in the UK, this book shows how it expresses and supports racial stereotypes, while exploring the forms of resistance presented by Black and Asian comedians.