Ideologies of legitimate mockery

This article examines a Korean American comedian’s use of Mock Asian and the ideologies that legitimate this racializing style. These legitimacy depend on assumptions about relationship between communities, authentication speaker’s community membership, nature interpretive frame has been “keyed”. Specifically, her depends and, to some extent, reproduces particular ideological links race, nation, language despite apparent process subversion. Yet stereotypical speech is not straightforward instance racial crossing, given she ‘Asian’ according most in U.S. Consequently, while may necessarily reproduce mainstream discourses Asians, able simultaneously decontextualize deconstruct these very discourses. suggests it successful as an comedian, particularly one who critical marginalization U.S., legitimizes yields interpretation practices primarily critique racist ideologies.