The Amalgamation Waltz Monographs we are often too tired

we are often too tired to do what we want

Sterling Silver

faraway gaze is subverted and made grotesque by the addition of a Kiss mask and a body sleeve of tattoos

Kennedy Greenway in Boston

The Amalgamation Waltz Monographs we are often too tiredTavia 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