Secondary Source 3

My third secondary source is a compilation book edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour and Theresa Carilli examining how the culture of global society in influenced and impacted by portrayals of diverse populations in various forms of media. I will be focusing on different sections within this book including the minority portrayal in cartoons, black comedy, and ethnic humor. The section discussing minority portrayal of cartoons compares modern and early representations of ethnic minorities in newsprint and other cartoons. The section on black comedy chronicles how black situational comedy has developed through different periods: “hybrid minstrelsy, assimilationism, assimilated hybrid minstrelsy, and simultaneity and diversification” (81). The section on ethic humor discusses how group identity is established through various forms of “in-group” vs. “out-group” humor (135).

Yahya R. Kamalipour and Theresa Carilli, Cultural Diversity and The U.S. Media, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1998