 Two examples of African-American tricksters are Brer Rabbit and Anansi.Tricksters in African American folktales take a comedic approach and contain an underlying theme of inequality.The National Humanities Center notes that trickster stories "contain serious commentary on the inequities of existence in a country where the promises of democracy were denied to a large portion of the citizenry, a pattern that becomes even clearer in the literary adaptations of trickster figures".