Brandon J. Manning
Texas Christian University, Department of Sociology
Brandon J. Manning is an Associate Professor of Black Literature and Culture in the Department of English and affiliate faculty member in the Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Department and Women and Gender Studies Department at Texas Christian University. His monograph, Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire (Rutgers University press), is an examination of contemporary Black satire and how Black men use humor and wit to produce vulnerability and decenter the trope of the Race man. He has published several essays in journals and edited collections and coedited a special issue of The Black Scholar on Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability.
Research Interests: Vulnerability; Performance; Humor