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Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

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Description for Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality Paperback. Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary "progressive" attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.

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, ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774827737
SKU
V9780774827737
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Minelle Mahtani
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. ... Read more

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