The rhetoric of racist humour: US, UK and global race joking

The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-215

  Weaver, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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