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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

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 10/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780774827720, 978-0774827720
      ISBN10: 0774827726
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      Cultural studies Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Gender studies: women and girls

      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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