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Global Mixed Race (Paperback)
Rebecca C. King-O'riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, Paul Spickard
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R804
Discovery Miles 8 040
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought
the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far
more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the
contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations
around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics
of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and
Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom,
Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, the
volume's editors ask: how have new global flows of ideas, goods,
and people affected the lives and social placements of people of
mixed descent? Thirteen original chapters address the ways
mixed-race individuals defy, bolster, speak, and live racial
categorization, paying attention to the ways that these experiences
help us think through how we see and engage with social
differences. The contributors also highlight how mixed-race people
can sometimes be used as emblems of multiculturalism, and how these
identities are commodified within global capitalism while still
considered by some as not pure or inauthentic. A strikingly
original study, Global Mixed Race carefully and comprehensively
considers the many different meanings of racial mixedness.
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.
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Global Mixed Race (Hardcover)
Rebecca C. King-O'riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, Paul Spickard
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R2,041
R1,897
Discovery Miles 18 970
Save R144 (7%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought
the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far
more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the
contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations
around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics
of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and
Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom,
Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, the
volume's editors ask: how have new global flows of ideas, goods,
and people affected the lives and social placements of people of
mixed descent? Thirteen original chapters address the ways
mixed-race individuals defy, bolster, speak, and live racial
categorization, paying attention to the ways that these experiences
help us think through how we see and engage with social
differences. The contributors also highlight how mixed-race people
can sometimes be used as emblems of multiculturalism, and how these
identities are commodified within global capitalism while still
considered by some as not pure or inauthentic. A strikingly
original study, Global Mixed Race carefully and comprehensively
considers the many different meanings of racial mixedness.
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.
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