{"product_id":"imperial-blues-geographies-of-race-and-sex-in-jazz-age-new-york-paperback-softback-9780822355397","title":"Imperial Blues; Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822355397","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImperial Blues\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGeographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFiona I. B. Ngô (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822355397\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 11 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.376 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImperial Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular elaboration of queer of color critique. Fiona I. B. NgÔ creatively reveals how orientalist discourses shaped Jazz Age subjectivities and social life. Theorizing racialized sexuality, she blurs the boundaries between domestic and international migrations, political and aesthetic discourses, and global and national racial formations. This is a beautifully conceived book.\"-\u003cb\u003eRoderick Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eStrange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"I love this book. It is smart, fresh, and new, a game-changer. \u003ci\u003eImperial Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is a theoretically astute and historically grounded cultural studies analysis of empire as central to the circuits of, and discourses about, jazz in Jazz Age New York.\"-\u003cb\u003eSherrie Tucker\u003c\/b\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBig Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“[NgÔ] deftly employs social history; ethnography; 'queer' studies; and analysis of literary, visual, and musical texts, making her book of potential interest to a diverse audience. … [I]t is a rewarding and insightful book, tying together multiple threads that were at some point disentangled by scholars with narrower foci on specific components of the Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e - E. Taylor Atkins (Journal of American Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImperial Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and valuable study that contributes to histories of imperialism, sexuality, gender, and urban spaces. The study will be of use to students and scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Imaobong D. Umoren (Gender \u0026amp; History) \u003cdiv\u003e“With its attention to such cartographies for mapping pleasure and importance, \u003ci\u003eImperial Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on a relatively neglected period for the intersections of postcolonial studies, critical ethnic studies, postnational American studies, and queer studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Victor Bascara (GLQ)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn this pathbreaking study, Fiona I. B. NgÔ examines how geographies of U.S. empire were perceived and enacted during the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on New York during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, NgÔ traces the city's multiple circuits of jazz music and culture. In considering this cosmopolitan milieu, where immigrants from the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Japan, and China crossed paths with blacks and white \"slummers\" in dancehalls and speakeasies, she investigates imperialism's profound impact on racial, gendered, and sexual formations. As nightclubs overflowed with the sights and sounds of distant continents, tropical islands, and exotic bodies, tropes of empire provided both artistic possibilities and policing rationales. These renderings naturalized empire and justified expansion, while establishing transnational modes of social control within and outside the imperial city. Ultimately, NgÔ argues that domestic structures of race and sex during the 1920s and 1930s cannot be understood apart from the imperial ambitions of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Desire and Danger in Jazz's Contact Zones 33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Queer Modernities 71\u003cbr\u003e 3. Orienting Subjectivities 121\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dreaming of Araby 155\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Academic Indiscretions 187\u003cbr\u003e Notes 193\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 231\u003cbr\u003e Index 251\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580194353432,"sku":"9780822355397","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imperial-blues-geographies-of-race-and-sex-in-jazz-age-new-york-paperback-softback-9780822355397","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}