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The amalgamation waltz : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / / Tavia Nyong'o
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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.: | 9910829111503321 |
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