A memoir in which the author, a former editor for the "New York Times Book Review," tells about his life growing up as an African-American in an Ohio steel town, and later at an exclusive, upstate New York university during the 1950s and 60s.
laughing, lying, and signifying-- : the underground tradition of African-American humor that transformed American culture, from slavery to Richard Pryor
Watkins, Mel
1994
Documents the history, evolution, and modes of Black comedy.
