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):

Miscegenation (Racist theory)--United States--History.

Miscegenation (Racist theory).

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Multiracial people--United States--History.

Multiracial people.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Performative (Philosophy).

Collective memory--United States--History.

Collective memory.

Nationalism--United States--History.

Nationalism.

National characteristics, American--History.

National characteristics, American.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future

The mirror of liberty

In night's eye

Minstrel trouble

Carnivalizing time.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816668175

0816668175

OCLC:

609684888