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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future
  • The mirror of liberty: constituent power and the American mongrel
  • In night's eye: amalgamation, respectability, and shame
  • Minstrel trouble: racial travesty in the circum-Atlantic fold
  • Carnivalizing time: decoding the racial past in art and installation
  • Conclusion. Mongrel pasts, hybrid futures.