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ii Acknowledgments iv Introduction – 1 Black Laughter / Black Protest ! Chapter One – 22 Hollywood, the Apollo Theater and the Politicization of African American Comedy in the World War II Era !Chapter Two – 79 “Taking the Negro Seriously”: Amos ‘n’ Andy and the Politics of African American Comedy in the Early Civil Rights Movement Chapter Three – 135 From Double V to Double Entendre: Nightclubs, Blue Humor and the Politics of Respectability in African American Comedy, 1953-1960 Chapter Four – 197 “We don’t serve colored people here – That’s alright, I don’t eat colored people”: Integration, Stand-Up Comedy and Civil Rights Protest, 1961-1965
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