Mixed race amnesia : resisting the romanticization of multiraciality / Minelle Mahtani.
By: Mahtani, Minelle [author.].
Publisher: Canada : UBC Press, 2014Description: x, 278p.ISBN: 9780774827720 (bound).Subject(s): Racially mixed people -- Canada | Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- Canada | Racially mixed women -- Canada -- Interviews | Race -- Social aspects -- CanadaDDC classification: 305.80500971 Summary: 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, 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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
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, 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.
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