{"id":49320,"date":"2016-10-04T01:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T01:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49320"},"modified":"2016-10-04T01:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T01:09:37","slug":"where-is-the-love-how-tolerant-is-canada-of-its-interracial-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49320","title":{"rendered":"Where is the love: How tolerant is Canada of its interracial couples?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where is the love: How tolerant is Canada of its interracial couples?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Globe and Mail<\/a>
\n2016-10-03<\/p>\n

Zosia Bielski<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMinelle Mahtani<\/a>, an associate professor in human geography and journalism at the University of Toronto Scarborough, wrote the book Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada<\/em><\/a>.
\n(Jennifer Van Houten)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Is love the last frontier of racial bigotry in Canada<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a question that intrigues Minelle Mahtani<\/a>, who has dared to ask whether interracial couples and their families still test the limits of tolerance in this country.<\/p>\n

In her recent book Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada<\/em><\/a>, Mahtani, an associate professor in human geography and journalism at the University of Toronto Scarborough, questions whether we\u2019ve not just put rose-coloured glasses on our multiculturalism, especially where mixed-race families are concerned.<\/p>\n

While interracial relationships are on the rise in Canada (we had 360,000 mixed-race couples in 2011, more than double the total from 20 years earlier), the numbers remain slim. Just 5 per cent of all unions in Canada were between people of different ethnic origins, religions, languages and birthplaces in 2011, the last year Statistics Canada<\/a> collected such data. That figure rises only marginally in urban areas: Just 8 per cent of couples were in mixed-race relationships in Toronto<\/a>, 10 per cent in Vancouver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How do people in interracial relationships experience that multiculturalism on the ground, when they introduce their boyfriends and girlfriends to family, or hold hands on a date? How do mixed-race families and their children feel about it, in their communities and in their schools?<\/p>\n

Mahtani was the keynote speaker at last month\u2019s Hapa-palooza<\/a>, an annual festival celebrating mixed heritage in Vancouver, and she will present at the next Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a> in California in February. She spoke with The Globe and Mail<\/em> about the daily realities of mixed-race families…<\/p>\n

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

Where is the love: How tolerant is Canada of its interracial couples? The Globe and Mail 2016-10-03 Zosia Bielski Minelle Mahtani, an associate professor in human geography and journalism at the University of Toronto Scarborough, wrote the book Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada. (Jennifer Van Houten) Is love the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,19,33,13743,8],"tags":[20611,517,8908,25142],"class_list":["post-49320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-canada","category-census","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-the-globe-and-mail","tag-zosia-bielski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49320","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=49320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49321,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49320\/revisions\/49321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}