The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
By (Author) Tavia Nyongo
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
15th May 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.800973
Physical Properties
Paperback
248
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
Description
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 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.
Author Bio
Tavia Nyongo is assistant professor of performance studies at New York University.
