Mixed Race Amnesia
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Author
Minelle Mahtani -
Publisher
Ubc Press -
Publication date
15 October 2014
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Book Detail
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Book Title
Mixed Race Amnesia
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Author
Minelle Mahtani
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Date Published
15 October 2014
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Publisher
Ubc Press
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Pages
288 pages
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ISBN
9780774827751
Book Description
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.
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