03167nam 2200745Ia 450 991045680000332120200520144314.00-8166-6817-5(CKB)2550000000007337(EBL)485440(OCoLC)609684888(SSID)ssj0000356521(PQKBManifestationID)11298823(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356521(PQKBWorkID)10349921(PQKB)10246118(MiAaPQ)EBC485440(MdBmJHUP)muse38786(Au-PeEL)EBL485440(CaPaEBR)ebr10370378(CaONFJC)MIL523007(EXLCZ)99255000000000733720090113d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe amalgamation waltz[electronic resource] race, performance, and the ruses of memory /Tavia Nyong'oMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5613-4 0-8166-5612-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future -- The mirror of liberty -- In night's eye -- Minstrel trouble -- Carnivalizing time.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 coMiscegenationUnited StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryRacially mixed peopleUnited StatesHistoryRacismUnited StatesHistoryPerformative (Philosophy)Collective memoryUnited StatesHistoryNationalismUnited StatesHistoryNational characteristics, AmericanHistoryUnited StatesRace relationsUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsElectronic books.MiscegenationHistory.African AmericansHistory.Racially mixed peopleHistory.RacismHistory.Performative (Philosophy)Collective memoryHistory.NationalismHistory.National characteristics, AmericanHistory.305.800973--dc22Ochieng' Nyongó Tavia Amolo1045001MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456800003321The amalgamation waltz2470945UNINA