Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot

by Michael Rogin

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The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader issues: the nature of "white" identity in America, the role of race in transforming immigrants into "Americans," the common experiences of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520213807

ISBN13:9780520213807

Release Date:May 1998

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Americas Arts, Music & Photography Film & Television History Humanities Humor & Entertainment Judaism Minority Studies Movies Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

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