Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality by Mahtani, Minelle

Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774827737)

Vendor: Minelle Mahtani
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$35.95
$35.95
$35.95
Subtotal: $35.95
Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality by Mahtani, Minelle

Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

$35.95
Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality by Mahtani, Minelle

Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

$35.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
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.

Author: Minelle Mahtani
ISBN-10: 0774827734
ISBN-13: 9780774827737
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Minelle Mahtani
By Minelle Mahtani
x

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.

Recently Viewed Products