The amalgamation waltz
Subtitle: race, performance, and the ruses of memory
By: Tavia Nyong'o.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780816656127; 9780816656134
Subjects: 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; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: This book investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From widely diverse texts--archival, musical, visual, and theatrical--the author traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future; title: The mirror of liberty; title: In night's eye; title: Minstrel trouble; title: Carnivalizing time.