New book in 19th century studies of race and sexuality
The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
Tavia Nyong’o
University of Minnesota Press
$22.50 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5613-4
$67.50 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5612-7
Description:
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 [...]
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