Showing Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities by Laura Browder

Slippery Characters 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,... Full description