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The amalgamation waltz : race, performance, and the ruses of memory /

"At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, Tavia Nyong'o investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A timely rebuttal to our contemporary fascination with racial hybridity, The Amalgamatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, Tavia Nyong'o investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A timely rebuttal to our contemporary fascination with racial hybridity, The Amalgamation Waltz questions the vision of a national future without racial difference or conflict"--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
ISBN:9780816668175
0816668175