Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- "Mommy, What's a Post-Soul Satirist?": An Introduction -- Post-Black Art and the Resurrection of African American Satire -- Blackness We Can Believe In: Authentic Blackness and the Evolution of Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks -- The Lower Frequencies: Hip-Hop Satire in the New Millennium -- Knock, Knock the Hustle: Resisting Commercialism in the African American Family Film -- Dirty Pretty Things: The Racial Grotesque and Contemporary Art -- Percival Everett's Erasure: That Drat Aporia When Black Satire Meets "The Pleasure of the Text" -- Who's Afraid of Post-Soul Satire?: Touré's "Black Widow" Trilogy in The Portable Promised Land -- Touré, Ecstatic Consumption, and Soul City: Satire and the Problem of Monoculture -- "I Felt Like I Was Part of the Troop": Satire, Feminist Narratology, and Community -- Pilgrims in an Unholy Land: Satire and the Challenge of African American Leadership in The Boondocks and The White Boy Shuffle -- Dissimulating Blackness: The Degenerative Satires of Paul Beatty and Percival Everett -- "It's a Black Thang Maybe": Satirical Blackness in Percival Everett's Erasure and Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White Boy -- Coal, Charcoal, and Chocolate Comedy: The Satire of John Killens and Mat Johnson -- How a Mama on the Couch Evolves into a Black Man with Watermelon: George C. Wolfe, Suzan-Lori Parks, and the Theatre of "Colored Contradictions" -- "Slaves? With Lines?": Trickster Aesthetic and Satirical Strategies in Two Plays by Lynn Nottage -- Satirizing Satire: Symbolic Violence and Subversion in Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Charlie Murphy: American Storyteller -- Embodied and Disembodied Black Satire: From Chappelle and Crockett to Key & Peele -- Television Satire in the Black Americas: Transnational Border Crossings in Chappelle's Show and The Ity and Fancy Cat Show.

Afterword: From Pilloried to Post-Soul: The Future of African American Satire -- Composite Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.