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Author Ngô, Fiona I. B., author.

Title Imperial blues : geographies of race and sex in jazz age New York / Fiona I.B. Ngô
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations
Contents Desire and danger in jazz's contact zones -- Queer modernities -- Orienting subjectivities -- Dreaming of Araby -- Academic indiscretions
Summary Focusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I.B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 231-250) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Arts and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Imperialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Arts and society
Immigrants -- Intellectual life
Imperialism
Minorities -- Intellectual life
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822377337
0822377330