Satire of the New Black Renaissance

How do twenty-first century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black Renaissance - a flowering of the 2000s and 2010s African American culture - and argues that its most potent tool is anti-essentialist satire. The study traces what Baratunde Thurston calls "e;Open-source Blackness,"e; an ethos that prizes individuality, inclusivity, and remix.To map thi...