Mixed race amnesia : resisting the romanticization of multiraciality /
"Racially mixed people in the global north are often portrayed as the embodiment of an optimistic, post-racial future. In Mixed Race Amnesia, Minelle Mahtani makes the case that this romanticized view of multiraciality governs both public perceptions and personal accounts of the mixed-race expe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver [British Columbia] :
UBC Press,
c2014.
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| Summary: | "Racially mixed people in the global north are often portrayed as the embodiment of an optimistic, post-racial future. In Mixed Race Amnesia, Minelle Mahtani makes the case that this romanticized view of multiraciality governs both public perceptions and personal accounts of the mixed-race experience. Drawing on a series of interviews with mixed-race women, she explores how, in order to adopt the view that being mixed race is progressive, a strategic forgetting takes place -- one that obliterates complex diasporic histories. She argues that a new anti-colonial approach to multiraciality is needed, one that emphasizes how colonialism shapes the experiences of mixed-race people today."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 278 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0774827734 (pbk.) 9780774827737 (pbk.) 0774827726 (Cloth) 9780774827720 (Cloth) |