Katelyn Hale Wood, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States

Abstract

Katelyn Hale Wood’s Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship in Black humour studies. Wood analyses the stage comedy of Black feminists including Jackie “Moms” Mabley, Mo’Nique, Wanda Sykes, Amanda Seales, and others.