Prudence and Racial Humor: Troubling Epithets.
Prudence is an essential virtue in a contemporary racial culture marked by the contingencies and the paradoxical in/stability of race and racism. Recurring controversies surrounding racial epithets exemplify this clash between deeply entrenched racial meanings on one hand and shifting conventions on...
| Publicado en: | Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 299 - 314 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2014
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