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Author:

Ochieng' Nyong©đ, Tavia Amolo

Title:

The amalgamation waltz : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / Tavia Nyong'o.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Race relations.
Miscegenation--United States--History.
African Americans--History
Racially mixed people--United States--History.
Racism--United States--History.
Performative (Philosophy)
Collective memory--United States--History.
United States--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
Nationalism--United States--History.
National characteristics, American--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Antebellum genealogies of the hybrid future -- The mirror of liberty -- In night's eye -- Minstrel trouble -- Carnivalizing time.

ISBN:

0816656134 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816656134 (pb : alk. paper)
0816656126 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816656127 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)286478365

LCCN:

2009001191

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)