NEGIN FARSAD "How To Make White People Laugh" Hosted by Malihe Razazan
"How To Make White People Laugh" is the first book by the writer, director and star of the hit documentary "The Muslims Are Coming!" Her autobiographical essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post 9/11 world reveal the power of comedy to combat racism. In this candid, often hilarious book, Farsad reveals her personal experience being the "other" in a contemporary American culture that often fears anything deemed foreign. She confides a youthful longing to be African-American or Mexican at various points.
Writing bluntly about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss, Farsad takes a long and clarifying look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of "Black" or "White" or "Muslim" - and what happens when white culture defines everything. She explores what it means to have a hyphenated identity. She discusses how we can effectively combat racism, stereotyping, and exclusion. Her particular genius is in openly confronting these issues with wit, humor, and incisive intellect.
Negin Farsad was named by the Huffington Post one of "the 50 Funniest Women." Her comedic routines often featured frank, sharp-witted views on politics, sex and the cultural dynamics of navigating her Iranian family.
advance tickets: $12, T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc (Berkeley), Pegasus (3 sites), Moe's, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway's S.F. - Modern Times. $15 door, KPFA benefit kpfa.org/events
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