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Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality

1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies

2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience

3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency

4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness

5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women

6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race

7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race Studies

References

Index

Mixed Race Amnesia

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    Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
    Publication Date: 10/11/2014
    ISBN13: 9780774827720, 978-0774827720
    ISBN10: 0774827726

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Mixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality

    1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies

    2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience

    3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency

    4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness

    5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women

    6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race

    7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race Studies

    References

    Index

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