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Communication Studies Volume 62, 2011 - Issue 4: “Race Matters” in the Obama Era
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Comic Provocations in Racial Culture: Barack Obama and the “Politics of Fear”

Jonathan P. Rossing Communication Studies Department, Indiana University Purdue University, IndianapolisCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 422-438 | Published online: 15 Aug 2011

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Megan Hill. (2020) Funny “haha” or Funny because I’m Black? Assessing Viewers’ Reactions to Chappelle’s Show. Southern Communication Journal 85:4, pages 209-218.
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Elka M. Stevens & Tyson D. King-Meadows. (2017) Technicolor Racism or Caricature Assassination? Satirizing White Anxiety About the Obama Presidency. Howard Journal of Communications 28:1, pages 72-92.
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Jonathan Paul Rossing. (2014) Prudence and Racial Humor: Troubling Epithets. Critical Studies in Media Communication 31:4, pages 299-313.
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Jonathan Paul Rossing. (2013) Dick Gregory and Activist Style: Identifying Attributes of Humor Necessary for Activist Advocacy. Argumentation and Advocacy 50:2, pages 59-71.
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Anke Lion & Frederik Dhaenens. (2023) ‘Just kidding?’  – an exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense . HUMOR 36:3, pages 375-395.
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Jonathan P. Rossing. (2016) Emancipatory Racial Humor as Critical Public Pedagogy: Subverting Hegemonic Racism. Communication, Culture & Critique 9:4, pages 614-632.
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Jonathan P. Rossing. (2011) Deconstructing Postracialism. Journal of Communication Inquiry 36:1, pages 44-61.
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