MOU: NBC Universal, Comcast and The African American Leadership Organization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly M. Davis
1998 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 1588
Author(s):  
Steven F. Lawson ◽  
Lea E. Williams ◽  
Robert C. Smith

Author(s):  
Cameron Leader-Picone

This chapter provides a reading of Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle and Aaron McGruder’s animated television series The Boondocks in order to explore the satirizing of leadership in the African American community. This chapter posits that a lack of hero figures allows for the satirizing of Martin Luther King, Jr. These texts, and the lack of leadership they portray, highlight the gap between the desire for racial harmony and the complexity of the contemporary African American experience.


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