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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (The American Literatures Initiative) by Lori Harrison-Kahan is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (The American Literatures Initiative) about?
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
Who reads The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (The American Literatures Initiative)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lori Harrison-Kahan
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813549897
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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