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UNINA9910829111503321 |
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Autore |
Ochieng' Nyongó Tavia Amolo |
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Titolo |
The amalgamation waltz [[electronic resource] ] : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / / Tavia Nyong'o |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Miscegenation - United States - History |
African Americans - History |
Racially mixed people - United States - History |
Racism - United States - History |
Performative (Philosophy) |
Collective memory - United States - History |
Nationalism - United States - History |
National characteristics, American - History |
United States Race relations |
United States Race relations Political aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future -- The mirror of liberty -- In night's eye -- Minstrel trouble -- Carnivalizing time. |
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At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, The Amalgamation Waltz investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scrutinizing widely diverse texts-archival, musical, visual, and theatrical-Tavia Nyong'o traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on today.Deeply interested in how discussions of racial hybridity have portrayed the hybrid as the recurring hope for a distant raceless future, Nyong'o is co |
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