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Mixed race life stories : the multiracializing gaze in Canada / Jillian Paragg.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Paragg, Jillian, author.
Series:
Critical mixed race studies.
Critical Mixed Race Studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Multiculturalism--Canada.
Multiculturalism.
Multiracial people--Race identity--Canada.
Multiracial people.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (161 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2023]
Summary:
Framing a new theoretical analysis in a field with limited data, Mixed Race Life Stories: The Multiracializing Gaze in Canadabuilds an understanding of the affective lived experiences of mixed race people, the different ways they are racialized and how that may impact a politics of mixed race moving forward.
Contents:
Cover
Mixed Race Life Stories
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Encountering the Multiracializing Gaze
Introduction
Global Mixed Race Literatures and the Canadian Context
British Colonial Entanglements: Canada and Other White Settler Colonial States
Hemispheric Race-Making and the Black Atlantic
Situating the Project Within CMRS
Race and Mixed Race in Canada: Study Contexts
Canadian Census Reporting
Study Contexts
Method and Methodology: Life Story Interviewing
Study Design
Life Story Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions
Narrative Identity and the Life Course
Ready Identity Narratives as Core to Mixed Race Experiences
Chapter Overview
2. The Multicultural Era and Race Discourse in Canada
The Multicultural Era and Race Discourse
Understanding the Racial Gaze in Multicultural Canada
Race-Multicultural Discourse in Canada
Linear Immigrant Nation
Celebratory Multicultural Nation
Post-Race Nation
Analyzing Media Discourses on Mixed Race
Mixed Race Discourses in Newspaper Media
Conclusion
3. Learning the Multiracializing Categorical Gaze
Learning About Race and the Racial Gaze
Readings of Race and Kinship Production
Learning the Multiracialized Categorical Gaze in the Context of Kinship
Learning (Lack of) Socially Recognized Belonging
Learning About Being Impure
Learning Serial-Multiple Forms of Articulated Difference
Learning the Need for a Response to the Calling out of Your Difference
4. Storied Identities: Navigating the Terms of Belonging
Terms of Engagement: Identity and Belonging
Navigating Terms of Mixed Race
Navigating National Belonging.
Re-Negotiating the Terms of Belonging: Towards Complex Commonalities
Grappling With Post-Race
Claiming New Terms: Complex Commonalities
5. The Lived Experience of the Multiracializing Gaze
The Lived Experience of the Multiracializing Gaze: An Iterative Affective Process
Affective Experiences of the Gaze in Everyday Life
Visibility, Authenticity and Bodies In/Out of Place
6. Conclusion: (Un)collective Possibilities
Articulating an Affective Politics of Mixed Race: The Canadian Context and (Un)collective Possibilities
References
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Paragg, Jillian Mixed Race Life Stories
ISBN:
9781800710481
1800710488
9781800710504
180071050X
OCLC:
1385451735

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