ISBN:
9780816656134
,
9780816656127
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (238 Seiten)
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Amalgamation Waltz : Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nyong'o, Tavia The amalgamation waltz
DDC:
305.800973--dc22
Keywords:
Miscegenation History
;
African Americans History
;
Collective memory History
;
Racially mixed people History
;
Racism History
;
Performative (Philosophy)
;
National characteristics, American History
;
Nationalism History
;
African Americans ; History
;
Collective memory ; United States ; History
;
Miscegenation ; United States ; History
;
Nationalism ; United States ; History
;
Performative (Philosophy)
;
Racially mixed people ; United States ; History
;
Racism ; United States ; History
;
Electronic books
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
Political aspects
;
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
;
Rassenmischung
;
USA
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
USA
;
Rassismus
;
USA
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction: Antebellum Genealogies of the Hybrid Future; 1. The Mirror of Liberty: Constituent Power and the American Mongrel; 2. In Night's Eye: Amalgamation, Respectability, and Shame; 3. Minstrel Trouble: Racial Travesty in the Circum-Atlantic Fold; 4. Carnivalizing Time: Decoding the Racial Past in Art and Installation; Conclusion: Mongrel Pasts, Hybrid Futures; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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