Satire of the New Black Renaissance

Kamil Chrzczonowicz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of North American Cultures and Literatures, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Promoting his fields of study, he co-founded the Humor Lab UW research group, published on the intersections of race and satire in scholarly monographs, and wrote on the comic aspects of literary classics in the UW’s "Masters of American Literature" book series.

• Introduction---Chapter One: Theory and HistoryHumor, Race, and Identity in (African) American CultureHumor, Irony, and Satire in the American Public SphereEmotional and Intellectual Dimensions of Black Humor(Cognitive) Diversity, The Science of Multiple Subjectivities, and Race The Path to the New Black Renaissance---Chapter Two: LiteratureAnteceding Open-Source Blackness: Erasure (2001) and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival EverettThe Forceful Racialization of ArtFighting Against the “Racial Optic”De-Essentializing Black EnglishA Need for the Comic Perspective---Chapter Three: FilmJustin Simien’s Dear White People (2014) and the Introduction of Open-Source Blackness Into Mainstream American CultureHumor and Irony in Race-Related Campus ActivismSatirical Taxonomy of Racial Micro-AggressionsDear White People in the Context of Black American Film and Comic TraditionIntergroup Contact, Parasocial Relationships, and Race Representation---Chapter Four: Digital HumanitiesMultimedia Satire by Baratunde ThurstonRewriting Race and Identity Through Humor and TechnologyThurston and Kwame Anthony Appiah: Echoing Scholarship Through SatireEmbodying Multiperspectivity---CodaOpen-Source Blackness: Redefining African American Identity Through Humor, Culture, And Technology