{"id":43642,"date":"2015-11-01T01:22:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43642"},"modified":"2015-11-01T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:44:44","slug":"professor-minelle-mahtani-on-raising-mixed-race-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43642","title":{"rendered":"Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Multiracial Asian Families<\/a>
\n2015-10-29<\/p>\n

Sharon H. Chang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Following are closing remarks given by Minelle Mahtani<\/a> after the premiere of my new book <\/em>Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children In a Post-Racial World<\/a> at Hapa-Palooza Festival 2015<\/a>, Vancouver B.C. Minelle Mahtani is Associate Professor of Human Geography and Journalism at University of Toronto-Scarborough. Currently she is on sabbatical to host new show ‘Sense of Place<\/a>‘ on Roundhouse Radio<\/a>. She is also author of the recent book ‘Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality<\/a>.’<\/em><\/p>\n

My book ‘Raising Mixed Race’ will be released December 11, 2015.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hi everybody. I\u2019m going to keep this really short and sweet because I just think that we\u2019ve heard so many really important things. But I just want to say thank you, Jeff<\/a>, for that really warm introduction. And I just want to thank Sharon and Professor Wei Ming Dariotis<\/a> for the extraordinary contribution they made here tonight.<\/p>\n

For me being in this room really means a lot. I think it\u2019s really rare that so many mixed people come together to have these conversations… I think it\u2019s really valuable to remember that you\u2019re not alone in this and that there\u2019s other people around who want to share in these conversations. I grew up as a person of mixed race identity. I\u2019m [of] Indian, Iranian, Muslim, Hindu background. And that was a really complicated identity to have in the suburbs of Toronto<\/a>, mostly white area, that I grew up in…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada Multiracial Asian Families 2015-10-29 Sharon H. Chang Following are closing remarks given by Minelle Mahtani after the premiere of my new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children In a Post-Racial World at Hapa-Palooza Festival 2015, Vancouver B.C. Minelle Mahtani is Associate Professor of Human Geography […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,414,8,394],"tags":[517,16772,14613,16773],"class_list":["post-43642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-multiracial-asian-families","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43642","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=43642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43657,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43642\/revisions\/43657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}