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
ReleaseDate 2015-03-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780774827737

Country	USA
Brand	University of British Columbia Press
Manufacturer	UBC Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2015-03-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780774827737

Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality