Mixed Race Amnesia

Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvMinelle Mahtani

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Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.She discovers that, in Canada at least, people of mixed race are often romanticized as being the embodiment of a post-racial future – an ideal that is supported by government policy and often internalized by people of mixed race. As Mahtani reveals, this superficial celebration of multiraciality is often done without any acknowledgment of the freight and legacy of historical racisms. Consequently, a strategic and collective amnesia is taking place – one where complex diasporic and family histories are being lost while colonial legacies are being reinforced.Mahtani argues that in response, a new anti-colonial approach to multiraciality is needed, and she equips her readers with the analytical tools to do this.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774827737

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Minelle Mahtani is an associate professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough. Her research interests include anticolonial approaches toward the study of mixed race theory and practice; exploring the intersections between white supremacy and journalistic representations of race; and documenting and analyzing the experiences of women of colour in the academy. She is past president of the Association for Canadian Studies, 2011 Winner of the Glenda Laws Award from the Association of American Geographers, and a former national television journalist at the CBC.

Introduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race StudiesReferencesIndex