TY - JOUR
AB - Book Reviews 1303 Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in quasi-European empire in New York and the Jazz Age New York. By Fiona I. B. Ngô. (Dur- signifi cance of nonwhite, queer, and female ham: Duke University Press, 2014. x, 267 pp. transgressions against imperialism there. “Th e Cloth, $84.95. Paper, $23.95.) dance hall,” for example, acts as one useful space . . . to investigate Fiona I. B. Ngô has produced a challenging the multiple connections that extend across analysis of imperial motifs in 1920s Manhat- oceans and national borders, across histo- tan nightlife. New York City became more ries of racial labor, across techniques and cosmopolitan as West Indian and southern methods of representation, across scien- African Americans fl ooded into Harlem, tifi c imperatives and aesthetic movements, Middle Eastern restaurants multiplied, Japa- across kinetic energies bounding between nese and Filipino men fl ocked to dance halls, jangling limbs and pursed lips. (p. 13) and African, Mesoamerican, and Polynesian art infl uenced modern design. Th e traditional Th e recurrence of grand generalizations night life narrative about jazz, Prohibition, such as this overwhelms Ngô’s fi tful presenta- and fl appers has obscured this rapid diversi- tion 
TI - Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav122
DA - 2015-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/imperial-blues-geographies-of-race-and-sex-in-jazz-age-new-york-5RyIcePyHk
SP - 1303
EP - 1303
VL - 101
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -