MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02046nam a22003618a 4500
001 2008014710
003 DLC
005 20080410142903.0
008 080409s2008 mnu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008014710
020 $a9780816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780816645213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aF128.9.A1$bR66 2008
082 00 $a305.8009747/10903$222
100 1 $aRomeyn, Esther.
245 10 $aStreet scenes :$bstaging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 /$cEsther Romeyn.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$cc2008.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 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.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aMinorities$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aMinorities$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aPerforming arts$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aSelf$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aEthnicity$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.