03133nam 2200733Ia 450 991078107130332120230721005851.00-8166-6817-5(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 aspectsMiscegenationHistory.African AmericansHistory.Racially mixed peopleHistory.RacismHistory.Performative (Philosophy)Collective memoryHistory.NationalismHistory.National characteristics, AmericanHistory.305.800973--dc22Ochieng' Nyongó Tavia Amolo1509089MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781071303321The amalgamation waltz3740685UNINA