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Harrison-Kahan, Lori
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Title The white negress : literature, minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish imaginary / Lori Harrison-Kahan.
Contributors American Literatures Initiative
Publisher New Brunswick, N.J : Rutgers University Press
Creation Date c2011
Notes "A book in the American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-219) and index.
Content 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 -- Moses and minstrelsy: Zora Neale Hurston and the black-Jewish imaginary.
Extent viii, 229 pages : ill
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990031602330205171

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