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The amalgamation waltz : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / Tavia Nyong'o.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory.
- History.
- Multiracial people.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory)--United States--History.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- Multiracial people--United States--History.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Performative (Philosophy).
- Collective memory--United States--History.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Nationalism--United States--History.
- Nationalism.
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future
- The mirror of liberty : constituent power and the American mongrel
- In night's eye : amalgamation, respectability, and shame
- Minstrel trouble : racial travesty in the circum-Atlantic fold
- Carnivalizing time : decoding the racial past in art and installation
- Conclusion: Mongrel pasts, hybrid futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816656127
- 0816656126
- 9780816656134
- 0816656134
- OCLC:
- 286478365
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