How to Make White People Laugh

Negin Farsad

eBook - 2016

From the acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary The Muslims are Coming! comes a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism. Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world through jokes. And yes, sometimes that includes fart jokes. In this candid and uproarious book, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. In fact, she longed to be black and/or Mexican at various points of her youth, you know, like normal kids. Right? RIGHT? Writing bluntly and hilariously about the elements of race we are often too politica...lly correct to discuss, Farsad takes a long hard look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of "black," "white," and "Muslim" today-and what it means when white culture defines the culture. Farsad asks the important questions...

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Published
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Main Author
Negin Farsad
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size13 GB
ISBN9781455558209
Release Date5/24/2016
Kindle Book
ISBN9781455594337
ASINB0169ATKEG
Release Date5/24/2016
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size13 GB
ISBN9781455558209
Release Date5/24/2016