Publications

Publication details [#65047]

Strain, Megan, Donald Saucier, Stuart S. Miller, Conor J. O’Dea and Derrick F. Till. 2018. “What do you call a Black guy who flies a plane?”: The effects and understanding of disparagement and confrontational racial humor. Humor 31 (1) : 105–128.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | joke | prejudice | racism | response

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This study argues that, while racial humor possibly has the potential to strengthen norms impeding bias, the observations of confrontational jokes as scornful may end in jokes (generated to sap and impede bias) ironically increasing biased answering.