Mixed race amnesia : resisting the romanticization of multiraciality / Minelle Mahtani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahtani, Minelle, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Canada.

Multiracial people.

Multiracial people--Race identity--Canada.

Multiracial women--Canada--Interviews.

Multiracial women.

Race--Social aspects--Canada.

Race.

Race--Social aspects.

Multiracial people--Race identity.

Canada--Race relations.

Canada.

Race relations.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014.

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies 29

2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience 60

3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency 95

4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness 140

5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women 166

6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race 207

7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race Studies 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Mahtani, Minelle, 1971-, author. Mixed race amnesia.

ISBN:

9780774827720

0774827726

OCLC:

875520859