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Title African American humor : the best Black comedy from slavery to today / edited by Mel Watkins ; foreword by Dick Gregory.

Imprint Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  817.0080896 A83 2002    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxv, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Series The library of Black America
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Playin' the fool : slavery -- pt. 2. Lay my burden down : emancipation to the roaring twenties -- pt. 3. New day's a-comin' : the Harlem Renaissance to the fifties -- pt. 4. What you see is what you get : civil rights to the millennium.
Subject African American wit and humor.
American prose literature -- African American authors.
African American proverbs.
African Americans -- Quotations.
Added Author Watkins, Mel, 1940-
ISBN 1556524307 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781556524301 (hardback : alk. paper)
1556524315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781556524318 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. UKM bA261487
YDXCP 1795932

 
    
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