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digest-33993		digest-33993		10	.htm	application/pdf	5204	306	66	First I will discuss the function of fried chicken jokes in American popular culture, and the way this joke functions as an instance of conversational humor. From D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915), which features white actors in blackface eating fried chicken and throwing the bones in the US House of Representatives, to Lee Daniels’ Precious (2009), which shows the eponymous teenager stealing and eating a bucket of fried chicken, fried chicken has been a folk (and film) motif with a host of meanings, many of which are racially charged.	cache/digest-33993.htm	txt/digest-33993.txt