The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source Blackness

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.

Kamil Chrzczonowicz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of North American Cultures and Literatures, Insitute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Promoting his fields of study, he co-founded the Humor Lab UW research group, published on the intersections of race and satire in scholarly monographs, and wrote on the comic aspects of literary classics in the UW’s ’Masters of American Literature’ book series.