The amalgamation waltz

race, performance, and the ruses of memory

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This book investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From widely diverse texts--archival, musical, visual, and theatrical--the author traces the genealogy of racial hybridity, analyzing how key events in the nineteenth century spawned a debate about interracialism that lives on today.