Title The White Negress : Literature, Minstrelry and the Black-Jewish Imaginary.

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New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (240 pages).
Series	American Literatures Initiative
	American Literatures Initiative.
Summary	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 th.
Note	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	From White Negress to Yiddishe mama: Sophie Tucker and the female blackface tradition -- The same Show Boat: Edna Ferber's interracial ideal -- Limitations of white: Fannie Hurst and the consumption of blackness -- Minstrel of the mountain: Zora Neale Hurston and the black-Jewish imaginary.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	African American women authors.
	Americanization.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Immigrants in literature.
	Jewish women authors -- United States.
	Passing (Identity) in literature.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Harrison-Kahan, Lori. White Negress : Literature, Minstrelry and the Black-Jewish Imaginary. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 9780813547824
ISBN	9780813549897 (electronic bk.)
	0813549892 (electronic bk.)

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