Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

(Part of the Cultural Studies of the United States Series)

by Laura Browder

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In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:080784859X

ISBN13:9780807848593

Release Date:June 2000

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 9.1"

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