In Shane Gillis’ first time on the SNL stage after his very public firing before he ever appeared onscreen in 2019, we discuss satirizing fact, fiction, and fraud across Trump Victory Party Cold Open and Trump Sneakers, as well as stereotype threat and racial anxiety in The Floor. Readings include the futuristic Boston Globe Editorial from 2016, Du Bois’ The Souls of White Folks (1910), and several psychological studies.
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Readings
Corsbie-Massay, C. L. (2022). “What is Satire” (Ch 1). Diversity and Satire: Laughing at Processes of Marginalization. John Wiley & Sons. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Diversity_and_Satire/CaSYEAAAQBAJ
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1910). The souls of white folk. The Independent. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4770-the-souls-of-white-folk
Editorial: The GOP must stop Donald Trump. (2016, Apr 09). Boston Globe. https://snl101.info/boston-globe-editorial-2016/
Richeson, J. A., & Trawalter, S. (2008). The threat of appearing prejudiced and race-based attentional biases. Psychological Science, 19(2), 98-102. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02052.x
Sommers, S. R., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2000). Race in the courtroom: Perceptions of guilt and dispositional attributions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26(11), 1367-1379. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167200263005
Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(5), 797–811. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.69.5.797
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