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Author

Harrison-Kahan, Lori.

Title The white negress [electronic resource] : literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary / Lori Harrison-Kahan.

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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	viii, 229 p. : ill.
Series	American Literatures Initiative
	American Literatures Initiative.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Passing (Identity) in literature.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	African American women authors.
	Jewish women authors -- United States.
	Americanization.
	Immigrants in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780813547824 (alk. paper)
	9780813547831 (pbk. alk. paper)
	9780813549897 (electronic bk.)