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BL
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700685
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b522874
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| Main Entry
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Romeyn, Esther
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| Title & Author
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Street scenes : : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 /\ Esther Romeyn
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, c2008
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xxxi, 273 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0816645213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0816645221 (pbk.)
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: 9780816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780816645213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780816645220 (pbk.)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-261) and index
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| Contents
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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
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City and town life-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
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Ethnicity-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
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Immigrants-- New York (State)-- New York-- Intellectual life
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Immigrants-- New York (State)-- New York-- Social conditions
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Minorities-- New York (State)-- New York-- Intellectual life
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Minorities-- New York (State)-- New York-- Social conditions
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Performing arts-- Social aspects-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
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Self-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
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New York (N.Y.), Ethnic relations
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New York (N.Y.), Intellectual life
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| Dewey Classification
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305.8009747/10903
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F128.9.A1R66 2008
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