Minelle Mahtani
- Courses4
- Reviews5
- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Geography
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Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: March 2007 - April 2020
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Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Geography
Associate Professor at University of Toronto
Higher Education
Minelle
Mahtani
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor, commentator, journalist and activist-scholar, Minelle Mahtani is committed to communicating clearly and concisely about issues surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education and in corporate environments. Concerned about how to not only diversify your organization, but also to ensure that inclusion is embedded into your organization's values and commitments? I believe in helping organizations move away from the model of diversity that employs a crisis-action-relaxation-disappointment approach (Williams, 2013) to one where diversity is anchored as a core commitment within your institution.
Experience
New School University
Assistant Professor
Minelle worked at New School University as a Assistant Professor
Association for Canadian Studies
President
Minelle worked at Association for Canadian Studies as a President
University of Toronto Scarborough
Associate Chair
Minelle worked at University of Toronto Scarborough as a Associate Chair
IMPACS
Associate Counsel
Developing strategic and communication plans to assist in diversity efforts for not-for-profit organizations across Canada
University of Toronto
Associate Professor
Minelle worked at University of Toronto as a Associate Professor
Education
UCL
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Geography
The University of British Columbia
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Geography and Journalism
Dalhousie University
BA Honours
Social Anthropology
Publications
Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality
UBC Press
Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality. She discovers that, in Canada at least, people of mixed race are often romanticized as being the embodiment of a post-racial future -- an ideal that is supported by government policy and often internalized by people of mixed race. As Mahtani reveals, this superficial celebration of multiraciality is often done without any acknowledgment of the freight and legacy of historical racisms. Consequently, a strategic and collective amnesia is taking place -- one where complex diasporic and family histories are being lost while colonial legacies are being reinforced. Mahtani argues that in response, a new anti-colonial approach to multiraciality is needed, and she equips her readers with the analytical tools to do this. The result is a book that takes critical race studies in new and exciting directions.
