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Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

University of British Columbia Press<\/a>
\n2014-10-21
\n288 pages
\n6 x 9″
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-7748-2772-0
\nLibrary E-Book: ISBN: 978-0-7748-2774-4<\/p>\n

Minelle Mahtani<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Race and Social Justice
\nUniversity of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mixed Race Amnesia<\/em> is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north<\/a>. Drawing on a series of interviews she conducted with twenty-four women of mixed race, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.<\/p>\n

She discovers that, in Canada<\/a> at least, people of mixed race are often romanticized as being the embodiment of a progressive, post-racial future\u2014an ideal that is supported by government policy and often internalized by people of mixed race themselves. 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\u2014one where complex diasporic and family histories are being lost while Canada’s colonial legacy is being reinforced.<\/p>\n

While noting that our “analytical vocabulary for describing the experience of multiraciality is not yet up to the task of telling a more complex story about whiteness, race, diasporic mobility, and grids of racial intelligibility in a white-settler society within what is understood as a multicultural liberal democracy,” Mahtani nevertheless undertakes to give us the tools we need to do this. The result is a book that takes critical race studies in new and exciting directions.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n