Street scenes : staging the self in immigrant New York 1880 1924 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