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The Amalgamation Waltz - Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Paperback)
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The Amalgamation Waltz - Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Paperback)
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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 deploys the
figure of the racial hybrid as an alibi for a nationalism that
reinvents the racist logics it claims to have broken with. As
Nyong'o demonstrates, the rise of a pervasive image of racially
anomalous bodies responded to the appearance of an independent
black public sphere and organized politics of black uplift. This
newfound mobility was apprehended in the political imaginary as a
bodily and sexual scandal, and the resultant amalgamation
discourse, he argues, must be recognized as one of the earliest and
most enduring national dialogues on sex and sexuality. Nyong'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.
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