The Amalgamation Waltz scarves The body—often nude—is central

The body—often nude—is central

Political Interventions

This catalog accompanies the ICA's exhibition Kevin Beasley

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The Amalgamation Waltz scarves The body—often nude—is centralTavia 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