Alfred Martins literaire bijdragen duiken in diepgaande theologische verkenningen, met name gericht op de persoonlijkheid, godheid en bedieningen van de Heilige Geest. Zijn geschriften bieden een onderscheidend Bijbels perspectief op levensbeheer en een omvattend begrip van de Schrift. Martins werken bieden lezers inzichtelijke reflecties die toepasbaar zijn op het dagelijks leven en geestelijke groei. Zijn nalatenschap blijft voortbestaan door zijn invloedrijke oeuvre, dat blijft inspireren en onderwijzen.
Drawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners,
and Black gay men, The Generic Closet situates Black-cast sitcoms as a unique
genre that uses Black gay characters in service of the series' heterosexual
main cast and deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience.
Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses. Rolling is a collection centering Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often entirely different than for white viewers. Contributors to this volume cover a range of cases representing African American humor across film, television, digital media, and stand-up as Black comic personas try to work within, outside, and around culture, tilling for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial interplay of Blackness, white audiences, and comedy; satire and humor on media platforms; and the production of Blackness within comedy through personal stories and interviews of Black production crew and writers for television comedy. Rolling truly illuminates the inner workings of Blackness and comedy in media discourse.