{"id":980,"date":"2009-09-24T03:39:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=980"},"modified":"2013-09-25T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:24:38","slug":"interrogating-the-hyphen-nation-canadian-multicultural-policy-and-%e2%80%98mixed-race%e2%80%99-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrc-ccdp.ca\/pdf\/forum_2008_forum\/interrogatinghyphennation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 Identities<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture<br \/>\nVolume 8, Number 1, 2002<br \/>\npages\u00a067-90<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geography.utoronto.ca\/profiles\/minelle-mahtani\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Minelle Mahtani<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Geography &amp; Planning<br \/>\n<em>University Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the ways \u2018mixed race\u2019 women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews, the research demonstrates how some women of \u2018mixed race\u2019 contest ideas of the nation as constituted through the policy of multiculturalism in Canada. <strong>To challenge the tropes of the national narrative, some women of \u2018mixed race\u2019 develop nuanced models of cultural citizenship, illustrating that national identities are formed and transformed in relation to representation. Refusing to be positioned outside the nation, they effectively produce their own meanings of identity by working through their own personally identifed \u2018mixed race\u2019 bodies to the national body politic, where some of them see their own bodies as intrinsically \u2018multicultural\u2019.<\/strong>\u00a0 The paper ends by addressing the paradoxes of multiculturalism, emphasising through narratives that the policy produces hierarchical spaces against which some \u2018mixed race\u2019 women imaginatively negotiate, contest and challenge perceptions of their racialised and gendered selves.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrc-ccdp.ca\/pdf\/forum_2008_forum\/interrogatinghyphennation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 Identities Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 8, Number 1, 2002 pages\u00a067-90 Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor Department of Geography &amp; Planning University Toronto This paper examines the ways \u2018mixed race\u2019 women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,8,394,25],"tags":[517,1036,10218],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-social-identities","tag-social-identities-journal-for-the-study-of-race-nation-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}