03239nam 2200781Ia 450 991097131660332120250305232821.097808166681750816668175(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 race, performance, and the ruses of memory /Tavia Nyong'o1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780816656134 0816656134 9780816656127 0816656126 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 coMiscegenation (Racist theory)United StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryMultiracial peopleUnited StatesHistoryRacismUnited StatesHistoryPerformative (Philosophy)Collective memoryUnited StatesHistoryNationalismUnited StatesHistoryNational characteristics, AmericanHistoryUnited StatesRace relationsUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsMiscegenation (Racist theory)History.African AmericansHistory.Multiracial peopleHistory.RacismHistory.Performative (Philosophy)Collective memoryHistory.NationalismHistory.National characteristics, AmericanHistory.305.800973--dc22Ochieng' Nyongó Tavia Amolo1870055MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971316603321The amalgamation waltz4478379UNINA