ISBN 9780813547831 | 0813547830 Textbooks - "The White Negress Literature Minstrelsy and the Black&Jewish Imaginary The American Literatures Initiative" by Lori Prof Lori HarrisonKahan Professor Lori HarrisonKahan Harrisonkahan

Authors: Lori - Prof. Lori Harrison-Kahan - Professor Lori Harrison-Kahan - Harrison-kahan
ISBN 10: 0813547830
ISBN 13: 9780813547831
Release: January 19, 2011
Format: Paperback (240 pages)
List Price: $24.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, World Literature, United States, History & Criticism,

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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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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (The American Literatures Initiative)