American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Demacy, 17...

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American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Demacy, 1750-1850 - [AUDIOBOOK]
m4b | 334.78 MB | Author: Eran A. Zelnik | Year: 2025

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How humor helped white men cast the United States as a nation in which only they were entitled to citizenship.

A joke is never just a joke-not even in the eighteenth century. In American Laughter, American Fury, Eran A. Zelnik offers a cultural history of early America that shows how humor among white men served to define and construct not only whiteness and masculinity but also American political culture and demacy more generally.
Zelnik traces the emerging bonds of affinity that white male settlers in North America cultivated through their shared, transformative experience of mirth. This humor-a category that includes not only jokes but also play, riot, revelry, and mimicry-shaped the dematic and anti-elitist sensibilities of Americans. It also defined the borders of who could parti[beeep]te in politics, notably excluding those who were not white men. While this anti-authoritarian humor transformed the early United States into a country that abhorred elitism and class hierarchies, ultimately the story is one of dematization gone awry: this same humor allowed white men to draw the borders of the new nation exclusively around themselves.
Zelnik analyzes several distinct forms of humor to make his case: tall tales, "Indian play," Black dialect, riot and revelry, revolutionary protests, and blackface minstrelsy. This provocative study seeks to understand the vexing, contradictory interplay among humor, demacy, and violence at the heart of American history and culture that continues today.

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