Furiously Funny... (2018)
Tucker identifies a specific type of humor that he labels “comic rage,” defined as a fusion of militancy and comedy within African-American cultural traditions that employs uncensored elements of African-American humor to express anger at white supremacy and the prevailing race relations that it undergirds. The fusion of these two seemingly disparate responses to hegemonic white supremacy revises mainstream constructions of blackness by challenging both stereotypical ideas about African Americans and African American responses to those stereotypes that are equally essentialist and limiting. Tucker notes that comic rage entered the mainstream of African American literature through the New Black Aesthetic movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which embraced the use of humor as a literary and artistic response to racist oppression.