Part I: Satire as Opposition
Chapter 1: Atonement: What Reparations and Racial Justice Look Like on Atlanta
Chapter 2: #ColoradoBorderWall: Mimetic Discourse as Emancipation
Chapter 3: Reservation Dogs, Visual Sovereignty, Performative Indigeneity, and the Cultural Imperative of Native American-Produced Media
Chapter 4: “Voldemort under My Headscarf”: The Oppositional Muslim Gaze of We are Lady Parts
Chapter 5: Class is in Session: Abbott Elementary’s “Step Class” and the Oppositional Gaze as Counter-Hegemonic Practice
Chapter 6: Squid Game: South Korea’s View of Itself and the West
Chapter 7: Alternative Media and Representation: An Outsider’s Construction of Race on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Part II: Satire, Challenges and Missed Opportunities
Chapter 8: Just Jokes? Dave Chappelle’s The Closer and the Intersectional Challenges of Satire
Chapter 9: Latin History for Morons: Comedic Revisions and Race in the Work of John Leguizamo
Chapter 10: Guess Who’s Muslim: Using Satire to Show What “Islam Truly Is”
Chapter 11: The Case of Kim’s Convenience: Cause for Celebration or a Cautionary Tale?
Chapter 12: Missed Opportunities: Discursively Dismantling the Hyper-Wokeness of the Sitcom Community
Chapter 13: “Polo, Small but Tough”: Arab and Muslim Representations in a Volkswagen “Commercial”