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

Title: The amalgamation waltz : race, performance, and the ruses of memory / Tavia Nyong'o.
Author: Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

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Description

230 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc E 09-887

ISBN

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

LCCN

2009001191

OCLC

286478365

Author

Ochieng' Nyongó, Tavia Amolo.

Title

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

Imprint

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 09-887

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