...She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too The second section consists of essays on Black female artists, musicians, and writers. Tate describes his true calling as a Black Lesbian gangsta feminist. He tracks how Black feminism thrives (even if sometimes in silence), its impact on him, and his call...

... This chapter examines theories of laughter, suggesting that the Western intellectual tradition’s attitude toward laughter until the twentieth century can be encapsulated by Thomas Hobbes’s notion of sudden glory, which claims that one laughs at other people or situations because one feels...

... Chapter 6, “The Joker’s Wild, but That’s Nigga’s Crazy: Dave Chappelle Laughs until It Hurts,” opens with an incident in 2004 on the set of Chappelle’s Show , Dave Chappelle’s hit stand-up and sketch comedy series. When the comedian performed a “blackface pixie” sketch, he heard what sounded...