Title: The amalgamation waltz
Subtitle: race, performance, and the ruses of memory
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: History, Race relations, Collective memory, Miscegenation, Racially mixed people, African Americans, Racism, Performative (Philosophy), American National characteristics, Political aspects, Nationalism, African americans, history, Nationalism, united states, National characteristics, american, United states, race relations
Places: United States
LC classification: E184.A1 O25 2009