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9780807825464

Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

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    9780807825464

  • ISBN10:

    0807825468

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

Examining the creation and reception of ethnic impersonator autobiographies from the 1830s through the 1990s, Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(12)
Slave Narratives and the Problem of Authenticity
13(34)
Staged Ethnicities: Laying the Groundwork for Ethnic Impersonator Autobiographies
47(28)
Writing American: California Novels of Brown People and White Nationhood
75(36)
One Hundred Percent American: How a Slave, a Janitor, and a Former Klansman Escaped Racial Categories by Becoming Indians
111(30)
The Immigrant's Answer to Horatio Alger
141(30)
Passing As Poor: Class Imposture in Depression America
171(32)
Postwar Blackface: How Middle-Class White Americans Became Authentic through Blackness
203(28)
To Pass Is To Survive: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town
231(40)
Conclusion. Rewriting the Ethnic Autobiography 271(8)
Notes 279(14)
Bibliography 293(12)
Index 305

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