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Amalgamation Waltz
Tavia Nyong'O
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paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference?
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 concerned with the ways this discourse ... Read moreNyong’o tracks the emergence of the concept of the racial hybrid as an ideological modernization of the older concept of the mongrel and shows how this revision brought race-thinking in line with new understandings of sex and gender, providing a racial context for the shift toward modern heterosexuality, the discourse on which postracial metaphors so frequently rely. 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. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816656134
SKU
V9780816656134
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About Tavia Nyong'O
Tavia Nyong’o is a cultural historian currently teaching in the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. His research interests include black performance, visual culture, and gender and sexuality studies. His writing has appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, Radical History Review, Social Text, and the Nation. He can be reached at http.//www.tavianyongo.com.
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