Street scenes : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Romeyn, Esther
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Subjects:	New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations. New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life. Minorities > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions. Minorities > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life. Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions. Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life. Performing arts > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History. Self > New York (State) > New York > History. Ethnicity > New York (State) > New York > History. City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space
The epistemology of the city
Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body
Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space
Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or the etiquette of race and sex
pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects
Juggling identities : the case of an Italian American clown
My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness
The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic
Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited.