The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
by Nyong'o, TaviaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-06-05
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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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 textsarchival, musical, visual, and theatricalTavia Nyongo traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on today.
Author Biography
Tavia Nyong’o is assistant professor of performance studies at New York University.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Antebellum Genealogies of the Hybrid Future | p. 1 |
| The Mirror of Liberty: Constituent Power and the American Mongrel | p. 33 |
| In Night's Eye: Amalgamation, Respectability, and Shame | p. 69 |
| Minstrel Trouble: Racial Travesty in the Circum-Atlantic Fold | p. 103 |
| Carnivalizing Time: Decoding the Racial Past in Art and Installation | p. 135 |
| Conclusion: Mongrel Pasts, Hybrid Futures | p. 167 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 181 |
| Notes | p. 183 |
| Bibliography | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 221 |
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