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The amalgamation waltz [[electronic resource] ] : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / / Tavia Nyong'o



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Autore: Ochieng' Nyongó Tavia Amolo Visualizza persona
Titolo: The amalgamation waltz [[electronic resource] ] : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / / Tavia Nyong'o Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
Disciplina: 305.800973--dc22
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
United States Race relations Political aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future -- The mirror of liberty -- In night's eye -- Minstrel trouble -- Carnivalizing time.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: The amalgamation waltz  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6817-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781071303321
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