Laughing mad: The black comic persona in post-soul America

Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-275

  Haggins, Bambi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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