Raúl Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 96088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PÉREZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9498-886X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Genocidal Enjoyment: On the Weaponization of Joyful Cruelty and “Dark Fun” during Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assault on Gaza, following the 7 October Hamas attacks and breakthrough of Israel’s security wall, has been dubbed a “live-streamed genocide” as a growing number of entities around the world, including international human rights organizations and leading genocide scholars, have concluded Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute genocide. A key source used to highlight Israel’s genocidal conduct and intent towar…
Culturally Responsive Outreach and Peer Navigation to Improve HIV Prevention and Care for Latino Gay and Bisexual Men in Atlanta
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (review)
Reviewed by: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa Rolando Pérez Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza The Critical Edition Aunt Lute Books, 2021 By Gloria Anzaldúa, edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pérez and Norma Elia Cantú, with Afterword by Ana Louise Keating It is a rare thing these days to come across a critical edition of any text, and even less of a contemporary work that is less than forty years old. And perhaps the…
Why study racist humour? An invitation to critical humour studies
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke. Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense. The insinuation is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly politicized social world. But do the stakes change when the jokes are …
El protestantismo vivido: Un estudio comparativo desde América Latina y el sur de Europa
El dossier que aquí presentamos trata del tema de la religión vivida (lived religion), y muestra resultados de investigaciones realizadas en tres ciudades latinoamericanas (Córdoba, Lima y Montevideo) y en una ciudad en el sur de Europa (Bilbao) y se coloca en el área de estudios sociológicos sobre la experiencia religiosa, la vida cotidiana, los procesos de autonomía y desinstitucionalización de la vivencia religiosa. Las lecturas y reflexiones …
Las Casas' Articulation of the Indians' Moral Agency
This article deals with Bartolomé de Las Casas' contribution to the notion of universal human rights. Though much study has been devoted to Las Casas' work, what remains understudied is the Spanish philosopher's conception of religion, which in many ways resembles what Kant called "the religion of reason." For Las Casas, then, Christianity was conceived more as a rational system of ethics than as a compendium of Biblical and scholastic dogmas. Li…
Autonomías e identidades racionalizadas entre creyentes desde la religiosidad evangélica vivida: El Caso Limeño
Este artículo aborda el modo como los creyentes evangélicos limeños construyen sus prácticas de espiritualidad vivida en un contexto de movilidad, pluralización y desregulación del campo religioso peruano. Nos interesa observar el modo como los creyentes vinculados al protestantismo urbano limeño, ciudad tradicionalmente marcada por la institucionalidad católica y una religiosidad evangélica circunscrita al espacio del templo, desarrollan nuevas …
From Insult to Estrangement and Injury: The Violence of Racist Police Jokes
This article examines racially derogatory police jokes, what we call "racist blue humor," as discourse that negatively targets and ridicules racial and ethnic minorities as inferior, dangerous, or as objects of symbolic and cultural violence. We argue that racist blue humor fosters the social acceptability of prejudice and discrimination among officers, normalizing a culture of dehumanization that legitimizes structural and direct violence. We an…
Race, gender, and comedy awards: From civil rights to color-blindness
Racial/ethnic and gender diversity played an important role in the development of stand-up comedy in the US from the civil rights era to the present. Many of the most visible and celebrated comedians during this period (e.g. Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, Margaret Cho) were critical in shaping and popularizing this culture industry we are most familiar with today. This paper examines the racial and gender demographic trends …
Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and: The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Reviewed by: Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and: The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Rolando Pérez Cannibal Metaphysics Univocal, 2014 by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Trans. Ed. Intro. Peter Skafish The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds HUA Books, 2015 by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Though it is perhaps hard to imagine, especially in light of the way we…
Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-up Comedy Venues
Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of 'Colorblindness
Critical Race scholars contend that the current period of 'race relations' is dominated by a 'color-blind' racial ideology. Scholars maintain that although individuals continue to hold conventional racial views, today people tend to minimize overt racial discourse and direct racial language in public to avoid the stigma of racism. This essay identifies racist humor as a discourse that challenges such constraints on public racist discourse, often …
Racist humor: Then and now
While recent scholarship has examined the capacity of race‐based humor to “upend” racial inequalities, or has focused on comedic “heroes” who use humor “subversively” to challenge racism, less attention has been paid to the evolution of racist humor and its continued role in supporting dominant racial ideologies. This article reviews key works on the historical and current functions of racist humor in the United States, in order to situate racist…
Debating rape jokes vs. rape culture: Framing and counter-framing misogynistic comedy
Humor controversies can simultaneously reveal and obscure relations of power, as well as the rhetorical/political nature of jokes. US comedian Daniel Tosh ignited one such controversy in July 2012 when he directed a rape joke toward a female audience member during a live performance in Hollywood, CA. This paper consists of a two-part analysis of this humor controversy. First, we examine a televised debate following this incident, between a comedi…
Brownface Minstrelsy: José Jiménez,” the Civil Rights Movement, and the legacy of racist comedy
This study examines US comedian Bill Dana, of Hungarian-Jewish descent, and his Latino minstrel character, “José Jiménez,” during the civil rights period. By situating Dana and Jiménez within the social and political context of Latinos in the US during the 1960s, I argue Dana’s comedy continued the tradition of racial ridicule at a time when blackface minstrelsy was increasingly unpopular: a result of contestation by African American civil rights…
Ethnic humor in multiethnic America
Borrowing Werner Sollors' observation that 'laughing at others... is a form of boundary construction', Gillota contends that whites have historically used 'ethnic humor' as a form of racial ridicule
Learning to make racism funny in the ‘color-blind’ era: Stand-up comedy students, performance strategies, and the (re)production of racist jokes in public
This article contends performance comedy serves as a mechanism for expressing ethnic and racial stereotypes in public and presents a challenge to studies of contemporary racial discourse which suggest overt racetalk in public is on the decline. In this ethnographic study on the training of stand-up comedians, I probe how comedy students learn to use rhetorical performance strategies to couch ethnic and racial stereotypes in more palatable ways, i…
Evangélicos y Política Electoral en el Perú. Del "Fujimorato" al "Fujimorismo" en las Elecciones Nacionales del 2011
This essay analyzes the role of evangelicals in electoral politics in Peru. As its starting point, it approaches the relationship between evangelicals and politics in the 1990s, during Alberto Fujimori's governments and the political legacy of his style of government. It focuses on the 2011 national elections and particularly on the approach of evangelical sectors to Keiko Fujimori's candidacy, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori who is now serving …
What Is "Minor" in Latino Literature
What Is “Minor” in Latino Literature Get access Rolando Pérez Rolando Pérez Hunter College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 89–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.4.89 Published: 01 December 2005
The Divine Duty of Servants: A Book of Worship (Based on the Artwork of Bruno Schulz)
Comunicación y educación interactiva en salud y su aplicación al control del paciente diabético
This article analyzes the need for participation of the groups that are the recipients of health messages in order to make health education more effective. Taking the traditional educational approach as the point of departure, the different options for communication and education processes in this field are explored in depth. The participatory communication model, in which the subject plays the role of both transmitter and recipient, leads to the…
Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of 'Colorblindness
Critical Race scholars contend that the current period of 'race relations' is dominated by a 'color-blind' racial ideology. Scholars maintain that although individuals continue to hold conventional racial views, today people tend to minimize overt racial discourse and direct racial language in public to avoid the stigma of racism. This essay identifies racist humor as a discourse that challenges such constraints on public racist discourse, often …
Learning to make racism funny in the ‘color-blind’ era: Stand-up comedy students, performance strategies, and the (re)production of racist jokes in public
This article contends performance comedy serves as a mechanism for expressing ethnic and racial stereotypes in public and presents a challenge to studies of contemporary racial discourse which suggest overt racetalk in public is on the decline. In this ethnographic study on the training of stand-up comedians, I probe how comedy students learn to use rhetorical performance strategies to couch ethnic and racial stereotypes in more palatable ways, i…
Debating rape jokes vs. rape culture: Framing and counter-framing misogynistic comedy
Humor controversies can simultaneously reveal and obscure relations of power, as well as the rhetorical/political nature of jokes. US comedian Daniel Tosh ignited one such controversy in July 2012 when he directed a rape joke toward a female audience member during a live performance in Hollywood, CA. This paper consists of a two-part analysis of this humor controversy. First, we examine a televised debate following this incident, between a comedi…
Brownface Minstrelsy: José Jiménez,” the Civil Rights Movement, and the legacy of racist comedy
This study examines US comedian Bill Dana, of Hungarian-Jewish descent, and his Latino minstrel character, “José Jiménez,” during the civil rights period. By situating Dana and Jiménez within the social and political context of Latinos in the US during the 1960s, I argue Dana’s comedy continued the tradition of racial ridicule at a time when blackface minstrelsy was increasingly unpopular: a result of contestation by African American civil rights…
Racist humor: Then and now
While recent scholarship has examined the capacity of race‐based humor to “upend” racial inequalities, or has focused on comedic “heroes” who use humor “subversively” to challenge racism, less attention has been paid to the evolution of racist humor and its continued role in supporting dominant racial ideologies. This article reviews key works on the historical and current functions of racist humor in the United States, in order to situate racist…
Autonomías e identidades racionalizadas entre creyentes desde la religiosidad evangélica vivida: El Caso Limeño
Este artículo aborda el modo como los creyentes evangélicos limeños construyen sus prácticas de espiritualidad vivida en un contexto de movilidad, pluralización y desregulación del campo religioso peruano. Nos interesa observar el modo como los creyentes vinculados al protestantismo urbano limeño, ciudad tradicionalmente marcada por la institucionalidad católica y una religiosidad evangélica circunscrita al espacio del templo, desarrollan nuevas …
From Insult to Estrangement and Injury: The Violence of Racist Police Jokes
This article examines racially derogatory police jokes, what we call "racist blue humor," as discourse that negatively targets and ridicules racial and ethnic minorities as inferior, dangerous, or as objects of symbolic and cultural violence. We argue that racist blue humor fosters the social acceptability of prejudice and discrimination among officers, normalizing a culture of dehumanization that legitimizes structural and direct violence. We an…
Evangélicos y Política Electoral en el Perú. Del "Fujimorato" al "Fujimorismo" en las Elecciones Nacionales del 2011
This essay analyzes the role of evangelicals in electoral politics in Peru. As its starting point, it approaches the relationship between evangelicals and politics in the 1990s, during Alberto Fujimori's governments and the political legacy of his style of government. It focuses on the 2011 national elections and particularly on the approach of evangelical sectors to Keiko Fujimori's candidacy, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori who is now serving …
Ethnic humor in multiethnic America
Borrowing Werner Sollors' observation that 'laughing at others... is a form of boundary construction', Gillota contends that whites have historically used 'ethnic humor' as a form of racial ridicule
El protestantismo vivido: Un estudio comparativo desde América Latina y el sur de Europa
El dossier que aquí presentamos trata del tema de la religión vivida (lived religion), y muestra resultados de investigaciones realizadas en tres ciudades latinoamericanas (Córdoba, Lima y Montevideo) y en una ciudad en el sur de Europa (Bilbao) y se coloca en el área de estudios sociológicos sobre la experiencia religiosa, la vida cotidiana, los procesos de autonomía y desinstitucionalización de la vivencia religiosa. Las lecturas y reflexiones …
Race, gender, and comedy awards: From civil rights to color-blindness
Racial/ethnic and gender diversity played an important role in the development of stand-up comedy in the US from the civil rights era to the present. Many of the most visible and celebrated comedians during this period (e.g. Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, Margaret Cho) were critical in shaping and popularizing this culture industry we are most familiar with today. This paper examines the racial and gender demographic trends …
What Is "Minor" in Latino Literature
What Is “Minor” in Latino Literature Get access Rolando Pérez Rolando Pérez Hunter College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 89–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.4.89 Published: 01 December 2005
Comunicación y educación interactiva en salud y su aplicación al control del paciente diabético
This article analyzes the need for participation of the groups that are the recipients of health messages in order to make health education more effective. Taking the traditional educational approach as the point of departure, the different options for communication and education processes in this field are explored in depth. The participatory communication model, in which the subject plays the role of both transmitter and recipient, leads to the…
The Divine Duty of Servants: A Book of Worship (Based on the Artwork of Bruno Schulz)
What Is "Minor" in Latino Literature
What Is “Minor” in Latino Literature Get access Rolando Pérez Rolando Pérez Hunter College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 89–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.4.89 Published: 01 December 2005
Learning to make racism funny in the ‘color-blind’ era: Stand-up comedy students, performance strategies, and the (re)production of racist jokes in public
This article contends performance comedy serves as a mechanism for expressing ethnic and racial stereotypes in public and presents a challenge to studies of contemporary racial discourse which suggest overt racetalk in public is on the decline. In this ethnographic study on the training of stand-up comedians, I probe how comedy students learn to use rhetorical performance strategies to couch ethnic and racial stereotypes in more palatable ways, i…
Evangélicos y Política Electoral en el Perú. Del "Fujimorato" al "Fujimorismo" en las Elecciones Nacionales del 2011
This essay analyzes the role of evangelicals in electoral politics in Peru. As its starting point, it approaches the relationship between evangelicals and politics in the 1990s, during Alberto Fujimori's governments and the political legacy of his style of government. It focuses on the 2011 national elections and particularly on the approach of evangelical sectors to Keiko Fujimori's candidacy, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori who is now serving …
Ethnic humor in multiethnic America
Borrowing Werner Sollors' observation that 'laughing at others... is a form of boundary construction', Gillota contends that whites have historically used 'ethnic humor' as a form of racial ridicule
Racist humor: Then and now
While recent scholarship has examined the capacity of race‐based humor to “upend” racial inequalities, or has focused on comedic “heroes” who use humor “subversively” to challenge racism, less attention has been paid to the evolution of racist humor and its continued role in supporting dominant racial ideologies. This article reviews key works on the historical and current functions of racist humor in the United States, in order to situate racist…
Debating rape jokes vs. rape culture: Framing and counter-framing misogynistic comedy
Humor controversies can simultaneously reveal and obscure relations of power, as well as the rhetorical/political nature of jokes. US comedian Daniel Tosh ignited one such controversy in July 2012 when he directed a rape joke toward a female audience member during a live performance in Hollywood, CA. This paper consists of a two-part analysis of this humor controversy. First, we examine a televised debate following this incident, between a comedi…
Brownface Minstrelsy: José Jiménez,” the Civil Rights Movement, and the legacy of racist comedy
This study examines US comedian Bill Dana, of Hungarian-Jewish descent, and his Latino minstrel character, “José Jiménez,” during the civil rights period. By situating Dana and Jiménez within the social and political context of Latinos in the US during the 1960s, I argue Dana’s comedy continued the tradition of racial ridicule at a time when blackface minstrelsy was increasingly unpopular: a result of contestation by African American civil rights…
Race, gender, and comedy awards: From civil rights to color-blindness
Racial/ethnic and gender diversity played an important role in the development of stand-up comedy in the US from the civil rights era to the present. Many of the most visible and celebrated comedians during this period (e.g. Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, Margaret Cho) were critical in shaping and popularizing this culture industry we are most familiar with today. This paper examines the racial and gender demographic trends …
Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and: The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Reviewed by: Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and: The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Rolando Pérez Cannibal Metaphysics Univocal, 2014 by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Trans. Ed. Intro. Peter Skafish The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds HUA Books, 2015 by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Though it is perhaps hard to imagine, especially in light of the way we…
Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-up Comedy Venues
Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of 'Colorblindness
Critical Race scholars contend that the current period of 'race relations' is dominated by a 'color-blind' racial ideology. Scholars maintain that although individuals continue to hold conventional racial views, today people tend to minimize overt racial discourse and direct racial language in public to avoid the stigma of racism. This essay identifies racist humor as a discourse that challenges such constraints on public racist discourse, often …
From Insult to Estrangement and Injury: The Violence of Racist Police Jokes
This article examines racially derogatory police jokes, what we call "racist blue humor," as discourse that negatively targets and ridicules racial and ethnic minorities as inferior, dangerous, or as objects of symbolic and cultural violence. We argue that racist blue humor fosters the social acceptability of prejudice and discrimination among officers, normalizing a culture of dehumanization that legitimizes structural and direct violence. We an…
El protestantismo vivido: Un estudio comparativo desde América Latina y el sur de Europa
El dossier que aquí presentamos trata del tema de la religión vivida (lived religion), y muestra resultados de investigaciones realizadas en tres ciudades latinoamericanas (Córdoba, Lima y Montevideo) y en una ciudad en el sur de Europa (Bilbao) y se coloca en el área de estudios sociológicos sobre la experiencia religiosa, la vida cotidiana, los procesos de autonomía y desinstitucionalización de la vivencia religiosa. Las lecturas y reflexiones …
Las Casas' Articulation of the Indians' Moral Agency
This article deals with Bartolomé de Las Casas' contribution to the notion of universal human rights. Though much study has been devoted to Las Casas' work, what remains understudied is the Spanish philosopher's conception of religion, which in many ways resembles what Kant called "the religion of reason." For Las Casas, then, Christianity was conceived more as a rational system of ethics than as a compendium of Biblical and scholastic dogmas. Li…
Autonomías e identidades racionalizadas entre creyentes desde la religiosidad evangélica vivida: El Caso Limeño
Este artículo aborda el modo como los creyentes evangélicos limeños construyen sus prácticas de espiritualidad vivida en un contexto de movilidad, pluralización y desregulación del campo religioso peruano. Nos interesa observar el modo como los creyentes vinculados al protestantismo urbano limeño, ciudad tradicionalmente marcada por la institucionalidad católica y una religiosidad evangélica circunscrita al espacio del templo, desarrollan nuevas …
The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke. Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense. The insinuation is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly politicized social world. But do the stakes change when the jokes are …
Why study racist humour? An invitation to critical humour studies
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (review)
Reviewed by: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa Rolando Pérez Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza The Critical Edition Aunt Lute Books, 2021 By Gloria Anzaldúa, edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pérez and Norma Elia Cantú, with Afterword by Ana Louise Keating It is a rare thing these days to come across a critical edition of any text, and even less of a contemporary work that is less than forty years old. And perhaps the…
Culturally Responsive Outreach and Peer Navigation to Improve HIV Prevention and Care for Latino Gay and Bisexual Men in Atlanta
Genocidal Enjoyment: On the Weaponization of Joyful Cruelty and “Dark Fun” during Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assault on Gaza, following the 7 October Hamas attacks and breakthrough of Israel’s security wall, has been dubbed a “live-streamed genocide” as a growing number of entities around the world, including international human rights organizations and leading genocide scholars, have concluded Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute genocide. A key source used to highlight Israel’s genocidal conduct and intent towar…
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