TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahtani,Minelle
TI  - Mixed race amnesia: resisting the romanticization of multiraciality 
SN  - 9780774827720 (bound)
U1  - 305.80500971 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Canada
PB  - UBC Press
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - Canada
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Racially mixed women
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Race
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index
N2  - 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, 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
ER  -