The White Negress : : Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary / / Lori Harrison-Kahan.
During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether such black-Jewish encounters thwarted or enabled Jews' claims to white privilege has focused on men...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Literatures Initiative
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. From White Negress to Yiddishe Mama: Sophie Tucker and the Female Blackface Tradition
- 2. The Same Show Boat? Edna Ferber's Interracial Ideal
- 3. Limitations of White: Fannie Hurst and the Consumption of Blackness
- 4. Moses and Minstrelsy: Zora Neale Hurston and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index