{"id":22422,"date":"2012-04-12T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22422"},"modified":"2013-09-25T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:17:36","slug":"mahtani-wins-prestigious-geography-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22422","title":{"rendered":"Mahtani wins prestigious geography award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapps.utsc.utoronto.ca\/ose\/ose_new_v\/article.php?id=3555&amp;page_issue=201204&amp;cid=21\" target=\"_blank\">Mahtani wins prestigious geography award<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inside UTSC<br \/>\nUniversity of Toronto, Scarborough<br \/>\n2012-03-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geography.utoronto.ca\/profiles\/minelle-mahtani\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minelle Mahtani<\/a> won the Glenda Laws Award for geography, which is given to early and mid-career scholars for outstanding contributions to geographical research on social issues.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is administered by the Association of American Geographers, and endorsed by the Institute of Australian Geographers, the Canadian Association of Geographers, and the Institute of British Geographers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Her contributions to geographic research on social issues build bridges between the academy and other centers of knowledge, like the policy, media and not-for-profit worlds. Her experience as a former national television news producer provides unique insights into critiques about media and minority representation as well as geographies of news consumption. She has also paid scholarly attention to geography&#8217;s expertise in an era of specialized knowledge economies, challenging the ivory tower to produce anti-racist geographies in the academy and challenging geographers to teach for inclusion,&#8221; the award presentation reads in part&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mahtani has also written about issues of race within the academy. She has written about the discrimination faced by women of colour geographers, and suggested that geography&#8217;s historical engagement with colonialism and imperialism works to ensure the domination of whiteness among faculty and students of geography.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Mahtani is especially interested in documenting the experiences of mixed-race Canadians, and has published a number of papers on mixed-race identities. She is an editor of the forthcoming book entitled <em>Global Mixed Race<\/em> to be published by New York University Press.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong>Mahtani brought her expertise on multiraciality to aid in the editing of Lawrence Hill\u2019s memoir, <em>Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada<\/em>. In a recent visit to UTSC, Hill, author of the bestseller,<em> Book of Negroes<\/em> singled out Mahtani for encouraging him to consider the relationship between geography and identity.<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nMahtani also designed the first course to be offered in geography and mixed race in Canada, entitled \u201cSpaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory\u201d, taught in the department of Social Sciences here at UTSC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/webapps.utsc.utoronto.ca\/ose\/ose_new_v\/article.php?id=3555&amp;page_issue=201204&amp;cid=21\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahtani wins prestigious geography award Inside UTSC University of Toronto, Scarborough 2012-03-29 Minelle Mahtani won the Glenda Laws Award for geography, which is given to early and mid-career scholars for outstanding contributions to geographical research on social issues. \u00a0 It is administered by the Association of American Geographers, and endorsed by the Institute of Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,8,394,25],"tags":[11706,10382,517,2373],"class_list":["post-22422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-geography","tag-inside-utsc","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-university-of-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}