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 inquiry that
yield more complex stories about Jewishness, African American
identity, and the meanings of whiteness. Lori Harrison-Kahan
examines writings by Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, and Zora Neale
Hurston, as well as the blackface performances of vaudevillian
Sophie Tucker and controversies over the musical and film
adaptations of Show Boat and Imitation of Life. Moving between
literature and popular culture, she illuminates how the dynamics of
interethnic exchange have at once produced and undermined the
binary of black and white.
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