Honey, Hush! (1998)
In the first text to compile a wide-ranging collection of Black women’s humor. Dance observes that despite the existence of a rich history of Black women’s humor, African American women have largely been ignored in every kind of study of humor, since treatments of American and African American humor tend to be male-dominated, while treatments of women’s humor tends to focus on white women. The collection provides the first anthology of Black women’s humor from slavery to the contemporary period, including humorous texts from literature, popular culture, and folklore.