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

• Autore: Ochieng' Nyongó Tavia Amolo
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8166-6817-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781071303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II