I. When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong

1. My Money, My Choice--Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre

2. Is Dave Chappelle a Good Role Model?--Andy Wible

3. How Old is Fifteen, Really?--Dave Lyrewood

4. Who Is John Galt? Dave Chappelle!--Roger Hunt

II. Going Hard in the Paint

5. A Master of Comedic Irony--Raymond Perrier

6. Dave Chappelle Knows Better than That--Mia Wood

7. Introduction to White Stupidity: Philosophy 101--Mukasa Mubirumusoke

8. Dave Chappelle's Positive Propaganda--Chris A. Kramer

III. Everything's Funny Until It Happens To You

9. Blouses and Pancakes--Mona Rocha and James Rocha

10. Upsetting the Alphabet People--Zoe Walker

11. Is Dave Chappelle a Feminist?--Christopher M. Innes

12. Why Chappelle Needs to Get Over His #MeToo Headache--Neha Pande

IV. Overwhelmed by the Irony

13. Clayton Bigsby and the Social Construction of the Self--Richard Bilsker

14. The Many Contradictions of Dave Chappelle--Duncan Gale

15. Well, Look No Further, Fella, You Found Me!--John V. Karativis

16. Dave Chappelle Meets Sigmund Freud--Dru Graham, Bennet Soenen, and Adam Barkman

V. Speaking Recklessly

17. Revolution or Illusion?--Brandyn Heppard

18. Dave Chappelle Does Not Trust Us--Steven A. Benko and Scout Burch

19. Hard Truths and Dangerous Jokes--Lauren Olin

20. Dave Chappelle Says He Doesn't Mean It, So Just Shut Up Already--Steven Burgess

VI. Revealing People to Themselves

21. Why Do You Feel Guilty for Loving Dave Chappelle?--Eliza Wizner

22. How Dave Chappelle and Saint Augustine Help Us See Ourselves--Conor W. Hanson

23. Original Gangsta--Marisa Diaz-Waian

24. How Dave Chappelle Uses Absurdity to Make Us Think--Alex R. Gillham

VII. Stand Back from the Elephant

25. Dance Like Nobody's Watching--Mark Ralkowski

Bibliography

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