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In "The Sellout" (2015) Paul Beatty evidences the interrelatedness of black identity and control over urban spaces. By using auto-segregation to bring back to life the fictional town of Dickens, “erased” from the maps to support the... more
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      Post-soul (African American Culture)Paul Beatty
From "30 Americans" to "Angry White Boy," from "Bamboozled" to "The Boondocks," from "Chappelle's Show" to "The Colored Museum," this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its... more
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      American LiteratureHistoryBlack Studies Or African American StudiesAmerican Studies
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      Contemporary American FictionPaul Beatty
In this course we will examine the way in which contemporary (defined for our purposes as the last twenty-five years) artists in numerous media—including print literature, stage drama, television, film, and the visual arts—incorporate... more
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      African American LiteratureHumor/SatireAfrican American StudiesColson Whitehead
Text of a presentation I gave in July 2019 at the (Re)reading Ralph Ellison Symposium at Goethe Universität Frankfurt in Germany.
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      American LiteratureBlack Studies Or African American StudiesWorld LiteraturesLiterature
Syllabus for course taught during Fall 2016 semester.
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      American LiteratureBlack Studies Or African American StudiesNative American StudiesMusic
This is the syllabus for a course I taught at McGill University in the Winter 2019 semester within the interdisciplinary Canadian Studies Program. It focuses on comparative analysis of depictions of black identity in contemporary works of... more
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      American LiteratureBlack Studies Or African American StudiesGender StudiesWomen's Studies
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      African American LiteratureSatireSatire, Irony, ParodyPercival Everett