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Slippery characters : ethnic impersonators and American identities

Author: Laura Browder
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.
Series: Cultural studies of the United States.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Browder, Laura, 1963-
Slippery characters.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000
(OCoLC)606302209
Online version:
Browder, Laura, 1963-
Slippery characters.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000
(OCoLC)607746454
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laura Browder
ISBN: 0807825468 9780807825464 080784859X 9780807848593
OCLC Number: 42716959
Description: xii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity --
Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies --
Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood --
One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians --
The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger --
Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America --
Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness --
To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town --
Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography.
Series Title: Cultural studies of the United States.
Responsibility: Laura Browder.

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