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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Beteilige Person: Mahtani, Minelle (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver ; Toronto UBC Press [2014]
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Umfang:x, 278 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780774827720
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