The Amalgamation Waltz scarves Political Interventions

Political Interventions

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The Amalgamation Waltz scarves Political InterventionsTavia Nyong'o 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 textsarchival, musical, visual, and theatricalTavia Nyongo traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on