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Undermining common sense: Racial legislation, comedy, and the family.

机译：破坏常识：种族立法，喜剧和家庭。

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This dissertation investigates the relationship between legal and comedic discourse of the racialized family. Historically, legal sanctions have restricted who could marry whom, shaping what Americans and American families have looked like by determining whose genes could merge with whose. Experiences within and between families have provided fodder for comedians, whose material has reached wide audiences, serving as a normalizing discourse and as a record of families' day-to-day operations. Revolving around discontent, tensions, and even danger within families, comedy has revealed a sharp distinction between legal discourse about the family and everyday experiences within families, I contend. What matters for those who preach about the sanctity of family is not the health of individuals or the quality of familial relationships, but the value system which benefit most from the perpetuation of that institution.; I go about making this argument by citing how common sense served as the guiding light in determining who was white and thus able to naturalize in a series of Supreme Court rulings, even when common sense was contradicted by science. In an era when anti-miscegenation laws were still valid and when the privileges and immunities guaranteed by citizenship were denied to so many, these restrictions on who could naturalize are of utmost importance. Relying most heavily on Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Richard Pryor's stand-up comedy, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, and John Leguizamo's Spic-O-Rama, I attempt to show how comedy can reveal the shortcomings of common sense views about the family---that restricting who could marry whom on the basis of race has done little to help individuals, with families being so traumatizing (and even deadly) at times. In each of these texts, families fail to live up to the ideal notion of the family as an institution, oppressing their members, especially women and children; yet the institution of the family lives on. In that sense, the language of protecting the family has been just that---language; any real attempt to protect the family needs to protect the individuals who comprise families. Without such protections, families will continue to be a major source of comedy as comedians attempt to make sense of their own experiences.
机译：本文研究了种族家庭的法律话语和喜剧话语之间的关系。从历史上看，法律制裁限制了谁可以嫁给谁，从而决定了谁的基因可以与谁融合，从而改变了美国人和美国家庭的面貌。家庭内部和家庭之间的经验为喜剧演员提供了饲料，这些喜剧演员的资料已广泛传播，作为规范化的论述和家庭日常运作的记录。我认为，喜剧围绕家庭的不满，紧张甚至危险，揭示了关于家庭的法律话语与家庭的日常经历之间的明显区别。对于那些讲究家庭尊严的人来说，重要的不是个人的健康状况或家庭关系的质量，而是最有价值的价值体系。我通过引用常识如何确定谁是白人并因此能够在最高法院的一系列裁决中归化来提出这一论点，即使常识与科学相矛盾。在一个时代，反种族歧视法律仍然有效，而公民身份所保障的特权和豁免却被剥夺了这么多，对那些可以归化的人的这些限制至关重要。最依赖马克·吐温（Mark Twain）的Pudd'nhead Wilson，理查德·普赖尔（Richard Pryor）的单口喜剧《致黄富》，感谢一切！朱莉·纽玛（Julie Newmar）和约翰·莱吉萨莫（John Leguizamo）的《史匹·奥·拉玛（Spic-O-Rama）》，我试图展示喜剧如何揭示关于家庭的常识性观点的弊端-限制谁可以嫁给谁，这在种族的基础上并没有帮助个人，家庭有时遭受如此巨大的伤害（甚至是致命的伤害）。在上述每种文本中，家庭都没有辜负家庭作为机构的理想观念，压迫其成员，特别是妇女和儿童；但是家庭制度仍然存在。从这个意义上讲，保护家庭的语言就是这种语言。任何真正的保护家庭的尝试都需要保护组成家庭的个人。如果没有这种保护，家庭将继续成为喜剧的主要来源，因为喜剧演员试图从自己的经历中了解。

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    Miklos, Michael Joseph.;

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    University of Southern California.$bEnglish.;

  • 授予单位 University of Southern California.$bEnglish.;
  • 学科 American Studies.; Black Studies.; Law.; Literature American.; Mass Communications.; Hispanic American Studies.; Cinema.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2007
  • 页码 180 p.
  • 总页数 180
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 人类学;法律;传播理论;电影、电视艺术;
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