The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

From former SNL ‘Weekend Update’ web host and legendary stand-up Colin Quinn comes a controversial and laugh-out-loud investigation into cultural and ethnic stereotypes.

Colin Quinn has noticed a craze during his decades within the road-that People in america’ increasing political correctness and awareness have forced us to tiptoe round the topics of race and ethnicity altogether. Colin really wants to understand: What exactly are we all so afraid of? Every ethnic group has differences, everyone brings different things to on the subject of The Coloring Reserve: A Comedian Solves Competition Relations in America the table, which diversity ought to be celebrated, not really denied. So why has acknowledging these social differences become therefore taboo?

In THE COLORING BOOK, Colin, a native New Yorker, tackles this issue head-on while taking us on a trip through the insane melting pot of 1970s Brooklyn, the countless, many dive bars of 1980s Manhattan, the comedy scene from the 1990s, and post-9/11 America. He mixes his incredibly candid and amusing personal encounters with no-holds-barred observations to definitively decide, at least in his very own brain, which stereotypes are funny, which stereotypes derive from truths, which have become totally distorted as time passes, and that are actually offensive to each group, and why.

Since it pokes openings in the tapestry of dread which has overtaken discussions about race, THE COLORING Publication serves as an antidote to our paralysis when it comes to laughing at ourselves . and others.