That's how they get you an unruly anthology of Black American humor
(2025)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
818.60208/THAT'S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, 2025
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 225 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593317112, 0593317114 :, 0593317114, 9780593317112
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"From the Thurber Prize-winning author of 'What doesn't kill you makes you Blacker' comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today . . . With words that roast, ignite, and burn while connecting to and coalescing around a singular thesis, 'That's how they get you' emphasizes how and why Black American humor is uniquely transfixing. This is a mixture of not just observational anxieties and stream-of-consciousness lucidities but also an acute political clarity about America"--Inside jacket flap
CONTENTS
Introduction:
Black humor is every brow /
Damon Young --
No one makes "yo mama" jokes after the funeral /
Hanif Abdurraqib --
The couple /
Jill Louise Busby --
You gonna get these teeth /
Damon Young --
The Karen Rights Act /
Mateo Askaripour --
Unmurdered in Grandma's kitchen /
Alexander Hardy --
Who cries in Waffle House? /
Ashon Crawley --
The necessary changes have been made /
Nafissa Thompson-Spires --
Dancing in the dark /
Clover Hope --
Mulatto pride turbo boost /
Angela Nissel --
A real actual text thread about real actual white presidents with names like real actual niggas /
Saida Grundy, Panama Jackson, and Damon Young --
Tenderheaded /
Brian Broome --
How to shit in West Virginia at night : but for niggas? /
Kiese Laymon --
Drive me crazy /
Shamira Ibrahim --
We don't make princesses in those colors /
Nicola Yoon --
Opening ceremony; or, Selling passes to a wolf hunt is literally selling wolf tickets /
Rion Amilcar Scott --
You ain't killing that shit until a Black woman say so /
Mahogany L. Browne --
Baby wipes /
D Watkins --
Crowd work /
Roy Wood Jr. --
Can a bitch just have a miscarriage in peace? /
Hillary Crosley Coker --
Love and water /
Ladan Osman --
The gorilla /
Joseph Earl Thomas --
The Jackie Robinson Society /
Wyatt Cenac --
An oral history of the Holy Ghost /
Michael Harriot --
An ode to cappin'-ass niggas /
Damon Young --
Group chat /
Deesha Philyaw