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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
Contributor(s): Harrison-Kahan, Lori (Author)

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 ISBN: 0813547822     ISBN-13: 9780813547824
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
OUR PRICE: $157.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - African American
- Literary Criticism | Jewish
Dewey: 810.935
LCCN: 2010008515
Series: American Literatures Initiative
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.09 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 02/04/2011 pg. 17
Choice 10/01/2011
 
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Publisher Description:
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 and representations of masculinity while ignoring questions of women and femininity. The White Negress investigates literary and cultural texts by Jewish and African American women, opening new avenues of inquiry that yield more complex stories about Jewishness, African American identity, and the meanings of whiteness.

Lori Harrison-Kahan examines writings by Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as the blackface performances of vaudevillian Sophie Tucker and controversies over the musical and film adaptations of Show Boat and Imitation of Life. Moving between literature and popular culture, she illuminates how the dynamics of interethnic exchange have at once produced and undermined the binary of black and white.
 
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