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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Developing a rhetorical analysis of racist humour: examining anti-black jokes on the Internet

Simon Weaver Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 537-555 | Received 26 Jun 2009, Published online: 20 Nov 2010

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