Mixed Race Amnesia Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

Mahtani, Minelle

ISBN 10: 0774827726 / ISBN 13: 9780774827720

Published by Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2014

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278 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mixed Race Amnesia Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774827726
• ISBN 13: 9780774827720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.54 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

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.