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Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship: Racial Impersonation and Immigrant Identity in American Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920

Description:

“Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship” investigates racial and ethnic impersonationsin American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their American-born children during a time when the United States had absorbed the highest number of...

Keyword:

Jewish American, Chinese American, Irish American , Racial impersonation, Immigration history , and American popular entertainment

Subject:

Performing arts, Theater history, and American studies

Creator:

De Simone, Maria

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/06/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_844553 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15740