Publications

Publication details [#52577]

Atluri, Tara. 2009. Lighten up?! Humour, Race, and Da off colour joke of Ali G. Media, Culture & Society 31 (2) : 197–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | joke | performative | race | television

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study on racially charged humor argues that the Da Ali G Show might provide hyperbolic race performances that illuminate racial performativity, and its relationship to the comic.