Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century

The satirical mode and African American identity

"The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake" : slavery and the satiric impulse

"Race is just a made-up thing" : abject Blackness and racial anxiety

"When keeping it real goes wrong" : vulnerability and satiric misfires

"How long has this been goin' on, this thang?" Centering race in the twenty-first century

Black futurity and the future of African American satire.