“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in <i>Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle</i> and <i>Weeds</i>

Gillota, David

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“…Beginning in the 1960s, this came to include local racist humor (Labrador ; Rohrer ). While racial humor has the potential to be anti‐racist (Gillota ; Sharpe and Hynes ), the next section explores how local comedy serves as a discourse falsely promoting notions of multiculturalism.…”

Section: The Creation Myth Of Multiculturalism: Forming the Aloha Statementioning

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Uncle Kimo Doesn't Get it: Reinforcing Racial Apathy with Racist Humor

Yamashita

2019

Sociological Inquiry

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As one of the most racially diverse U.S. states, Hawai'i is a reputed multicultural paradise. Its residents (locals) thus freely engage in racist jokes and stereotypes with one another as an example of their plurality compared to “racist” continental Americans. While previous studies have examined how racist comedy discursively naturalizes discrimination, I argue that these jokes are also connected to racialized emotions that uphold the islands’ unequal social structure. Using 44 interviews with locals who grew up in Hawai'i, I illustrate how racist jokes promote locals’ apathy toward the islands’ racial issues. I first describe how interviewees developed identity boundaries between “multicultural locals” and “racist mainlanders.” Then, I examine how these identity boundaries are tied to emotional scripts prompting respondents to ignore racism in Hawai'i. While many respondents uncritically engaged in racist comedy, a significant number of participants felt marginalized by racist humor. I use their experiences to show how locals must trade their “emotional labor,” laughing along with their peers, in order to maintain their local identities. I conclude by showing how racial apathy is reaffirmed as the affective consequences of racist jokes were trivialized and locals taught to roll with the punch(lines) of ethnic humor.

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Section: The Creation Myth Of Multiculturalism: Forming the Aloha Statementioning

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Uncle Kimo Doesn't Get it: Reinforcing Racial Apathy with Racist Humor

Yamashita

2019

Sociological Inquiry

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Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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Language and Characterisation in Television Series

Bednarek

2023

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They highlight different aspects of televisual characterisation and showcase the use of different data, methods, and approaches in its analysis. Uniquely, the book takes a mixed-method approach and will thus not only appeal to corpus linguists but also researchers in sociolinguistics, stylistics, and pragmatics. All corpus linguistic techniques are clearly introduced and explained, and the book is thus accessible to both experienced researchers as well as novice researchers and students. It will be essential reading in linguistics, literature, stylistics, and media/television studies.

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“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Weeds

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Uncle Kimo Doesn't Get it: Reinforcing Racial Apathy with Racist Humor

Uncle Kimo Doesn't Get it: Reinforcing Racial Apathy with Racist Humor

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Language and Characterisation in Television Series

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