Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of

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 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 â€“ 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.
Country USA
Brand University of British Columbia Press
Manufacturer UBC Press
Binding Paperback
PartNumber RKC2010545745
Height 9.1
Length 6
Weight 0.93916923612
Width 1.1
ReleaseDate 2015-03-19
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	University of British Columbia Press
Manufacturer	UBC Press
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	RKC2010545745
Height	9.1
Length	6
Weight	0.93916923612
Width	1.1
ReleaseDate	2015-03-19
NumberOfItems	1

Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality