Mixed Race Amnesia : Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

Minelle Mahtani

ISBN 10: 0774827726 / ISBN 13: 9780774827720

Published by University Of British Columbia Press Nov 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary 'progressive' attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mixed Race Amnesia : Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality
• Publisher: University Of British Columbia Press Nov 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774827726
• ISBN 13: 9780774827720
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 0D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams

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Synopsis

Racially mixed people in the global north are often portrayed as the embodiment of an optimistic, post-racial future. In Mixed Race Amnesia, Minelle Mahtani makes the case that this romanticized view of multiraciality governs both public perceptions and personal accounts of the mixed-race experience. Drawing on a series of interviews with mixed-race women, she explores how, in order to adopt the view that being mixed race is progressive, a strategic forgetting takes place – one that obliterates complex diasporic histories. She argues that a new anti-colonial approach to multiraciality is needed, one that emphasizes how colonialism shapes the experiences of mixed-race people today.

About the Author

Minelle Mahtani is an associate professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough. 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.