The Satire of the New Black Renaissance

Introduction

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Chapter One: Theory and History

Humor, Race, and Identity in (African) American Culture

Humor, Irony, and Satire in the American Public Sphere

Emotional and Intellectual Dimensions of Black Humor

(Cognitive) Diversity, The Science of Multiple Subjectivities, and Race

The Path to the New Black Renaissance

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Chapter Two: Literature

Anteceding Open-Source Blackness: Erasure (2001) and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival Everett

The Forceful Racialization of Art

Fighting Against the "Racial Optic"

De-Essentializing Black English

A Need for the Comic Perspective

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Chapter Three: Film

Justin Simien's Dear White People (2014) and the Introduction of Open-Source Blackness Into Mainstream American Culture

Humor and Irony in Race-Related Campus Activism

Satirical Taxonomy of Racial Micro-Aggressions

Dear White People in the Context of Black American Film and Comic Tradition

Intergroup Contact, Parasocial Relationships, and Race Representation

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Chapter Four: Digital Humanities

Multimedia Satire by Baratunde Thurston

Rewriting Race and Identity Through Humor and Technology

Thurston and Kwame Anthony Appiah: Echoing Scholarship Through Satire

Embodying Multiperspectivity

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Coda

Open-Source Blackness: Redefining African American Identity Through Humor, Culture, And Technology