Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Race & Comedy - Interracial Marriage and "Doing Race" across the globe. [Video]

A student sent this one to me and I wanted to share with AVID readers.

South African Comedian Trevor Noah, born to a white father and a black mother, uses his stand up routine to address several layers of race.

In this clip, he discusses
  •  interracial marriage and mixed families (his family was illegal in Apartheid era South Africa)
  • "doing race" - he imitates both white,  black Americans, and Germans.
  • the social construction of race - if he was black in South Africa, why was he Mexican in America?


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