Nate Bargatze is “The Nicest Man in Stand-Up,” and it shows in his SNL debut. We discuss cultural ownership and authentic Blackness in “Chef’s Show,” Liberty, Logic, and American Exceptionalism in “Washington’s Dream,” and commodifying masculinity in Dawg Food: A film by Please Don’t Destroy. Suggested readings include Angela Davis’ “Unfinished Lectures on Liberation,” Charisse’s article on the unprofitability of authentic Blackness, and a New York Times Magazine piece on why Americans stink at math.
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Readings
Appiah, K.A. (2007). Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? in Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York, London: W. W. Nortion & Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cosmopolitanism/4w1WK6dOHsYC
Brough, A. R., Wilkie, J. E., Ma, J., Isaac, M. S., & Gal, D. (2016). Is eco-friendly unmanly? The green-feminine stereotype and its effect on sustainable consumption. Journal of Consumer Research, 43(4), 567-582. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucw044
Corsbie-Massay, C. L., Riley, B. K., & Soraia de Carvalho, R. (2022). Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 50(3), 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083433
Davis, Angela Y. “Unfinished Lectures on Liberation,” in Angela Davis Reader. Edited by Joy James (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2008), 53-60. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Angela_Y_Davis_Reader/VFjcC0NbUscC
Green, E. (2014). Why do Americans stink at math. The New York Times, 23. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html
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