Academic scholarship

, 7

Affect

, 96, 117

Affective cycles concept

, 97

Affective experiences of gaze in everyday life

, 98–114

visibility, authenticity and bodies in/out of place

, 103–114

Affective politics of mixed race

, 2, 117–119, 125

Ahmed’s approach to phenomenology

, 96

Anti-Black racism

, 7, 9–10, 50, 57–58, 120

Anti-Indigenous racism

, 54–55

Anticipation

, 118

Australia

, 4–5, 106–107, 119

Australian context

, 4–5

Belonging

re-negotiating terms of

, 80–91

terms of engagement

, 66–91

Biographization process

, 19

Biracial

, 70

Black Atlantic

, 7

Black masculinity

, 52–53

Black/Métis mix

, 125

Black/white mix

, 125

Blackness

, 50–51

British colonial entanglements

, 3–6

British/Commonwealth settler colonial states

, 4–5

Brownness

, 62, 123–124

Calgary

, 2, 13–16, 33–34

Canada

analyzing media discourses on mixed race

, 30

mixed race discourses in newspaper media

, 34–39

multicultural era and race discourse

, 25–39

race and mixed race in

, 9–14

race–multicultural discourse in Canada

, 30–33

understanding racial gaze in multicultural Canada

, 27–30

and white settler colonial states

, 3–6

Canadian census reporting

, 10–13

Canadian context

, 8, 27–29

and (un)collective possibilities

, 119–125

global mixed race literatures and

, 3–9

Canadian culture

, 56

Canadian identity

, 74

Canadian institutions

, 9–10

Canadian media

, 35

Canadian multicultural discourse

, 2, 27–28

Canadian multiculturalism

, 27–28

Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1988)

, 26

Canadian official multiculturalism

, 119

Canadian population

, 12

Canadian settler colonial state, The

, 5

Celebratory discourse of racial mixing

, 29–30

Celebratory Multicultural Nation

, 30, 32, 77–78

Census

, 5–6, 10, 12, 66, 75–76

Childhood school experiences

, 103–104

Children

, 1, 37–38

Chinese community

, 48

Collectives

, 122–124

Communities of brownness

, 123

Complex commonalities

, 80, 85, 91

Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS)

, 3

literature

, 8

scholars

, 7

situating project within

, 7–9

Critical race literature

, 103–104

Critical Race Theory (CRT)

, 44

Cultural festivals

, 94–95

Dating and partnering

, 37–38, 42, 49, 52–53, 61, 63

Department of Sociology

, 93–94

Discourses

, 1–2, 9, 23, 53

Discrete ‘cultural’ categories

, 109

Dissective questioning process

, 8–9

Diversity

, 31

Dominant racial imaginaries

, 53

Edmonton

, 2, 13–15, 122

Embodiment

, 80, 82, 96

Engagement

navigating national belonging

, 74–80

navigating terms of mixed race

, 66–74

re-negotiating terms of belonging

, 80–91

terms of

, 66–91

Ethnicity

, 5–6, 10–11, 27–28, 32, 123

Exoticization

, 49

External racial gaze

, 29

Family

, 44

Federal census (2021)

, 13–14

Felt experience

, 23–24, 99–100, 120

Gender

, 35–36, 80–81

Gender as seriality concept

, 53

Global Mixed Race Literatures and Canadian Context

, 3–9

British colonial entanglements

, 3–6

hemispheric race-making and Black Atlantic

, 7

situating project within CMRS

, 7–9

Grappling with post-race

, 81–85

Hair

, 46, 72–73

Hapa identity

, 49

Hemispheric race-making concept

, 6–7

Heritage Days

, 56–57

Hesitation

, 97

Hip-hop dance communities

, 123–124

Identity and belonging

, 66–91

Immigrant experiences

, 109

Immigration

, 12

Immigration policy

, 4–5, 31

Indian Act

, 28, 31

Indian Residential School System

, 32

Indigenous groups

, 28

Indigenous movements

, 5–6

Indigenous peoples

, 4

Institutional racism

, 42

Interracial families

, 42

Interracial relationships

, 12–13

Interview participants

, 58–59

narratives

, 81

Interviewees

, 72

Iterative process of lived experience

, 103–104

Jook-sing

, 48–49

Kinning concept

, 44

Kinship

, 42, 46, 95

learning multiracialized categorical gaze in context of

, 45–63

readings of race and kinship production

, 43–45

Learning

impure

, 47–53

multiracialized categorical gaze in context of kinship

, 45–63

need for response to calling out of difference

, 58–63

race and racial gaze

, 42–45

readings of race and kinship production

, 43–45

serial–multiple forms of articulated difference

, 53–58

socially recognized belonging

, 45–47

Life course

, 18–19

approaches

, 19

Life story

epistemological and ontological assumptions

, 17–18

interviewing methodology

, 14, 17, 23

method approach

, 15

methodological approaches

, 17

Linear immigrant nation

, 30, 68, 77

Lived experience

, 1, 17–18, 118

Media discourses on mixed race, analyzing

, 30

Media texts

, 33

Memory/body

, 125

Methodology

, 14–23

Methods

, 14–23

Métis

, 31

Mixed experience

, 85–86

Mixed off-spring

, 4

Mixed race

, 3, 34

analyzing media discourses on

, 30

articulating affective politics of

, 119–125

in Canada

, 9–14

identity

, 7

literature

, 8, 43

navigating terms of

, 66–74

respondents

, 41

subjects narratives

, 29

voices

, 36

Mixed race

, 70

Mixed race community

, 122–123

Mixed race discourses

, 68

in newspaper media

, 34–39

Mixed race experiences, ready identity narratives as core to

, 20–23

Monoracial

, 29

Mulatto

, 21, 70

Multicultural Canada

, 81–82

understanding racial gaze in

, 27–30

Multicultural curriculum

, 110–112

Multicultural day

, 112

Multicultural era, Canada

, 25–39

Multicultural festivals

, 56, 79–80

Multicultural imaginary

, 31–32

Multicultural nation

, 74

Multicultural policy

, 5, 25–26

Multiculturalism

in Canada

, 27

m policy

, 108–109

Multiple ethnic origins

, 11

Multiple multiplicities

, 29, 85

Multiple respondents

, 75

Multiplicity of identities

, 54

Multiracial

, 70

Multiracial Balancing Act

, 37–38

Multiracialized kinship

, 43

Multiracialized respondents

, 70

Multiracializing categorical gaze

affective experiences of gaze in everyday life

, 98–114

learning about race and racial gaze

, 42–45

learning multiracialized categorical gaze in context of kinship

, 45–63

lived experience of

, 96–98

Multiracializing gaze

, 117

global mixed race literatures and Canadian context

, 3–9

life story epistemological and ontological assumptions

, 17–18

method and methodology

, 14–23

narrative identity and life course

, 18–19

race and mixed race in Canada

, 9–14

ready identity narratives as core to mixed race experiences

, 20–23

study design

, 15–17

Narrative approach

, 18–19

Narrative identity

, 18–19

approach

, 23

Narrative-type method approaches

, 17

National belonging, navigating

, 74–80

Nationality

, 27–28, 105

Neo-liberal

, 32

New Métis

, 38–39

New Zealand

, 4, 120

Newspaper media, mixed race discourses in

, 34–39

Non-white racialized ethnicities

, 20–21, 28

Non-whites

, 30–31

Official multicultural policy

, 26

Official multiculturalism

, 25–26, 118

On the street

, 23–24

Participants

, 65, 97

Phenomenology

, 96

Ahmed’s approach to

, 96

Politics of mixed race

, 24, 119

Post-race

bridges

, 37

discourses

, 32, 81

discursive threads

, 37–38

grappling with

, 81–85

nation

, 32–33

Queer theory

, 44–45

Race

, 1

in Canada

, 9–14

Canadian census reporting

, 10–13

discourse, Canada

, 25–39

learning about

, 42–45

readings of race and kinship production

, 43–45

study contexts

, 13–14

Race–multicultural discourse in Canada

, 30–33

celebratory multicultural nation

, 30–32

linear immigrant nation

, 30

post-race nation

, 32–33

Racial gaze

learning about

, 42–45

in multicultural Canada

, 27–30

Racial identities

, 30–31

Racial learnings

, 41–42

Racial mixing

, 47–48

Racial slavery

, 7, 9–10, 83

Racialization

, 120

Racialized ethnicities

, 7, 20–21

Racism

, 32

Re-negotiating terms of belonging

, 80–91

claiming new terms

, 85–91

grappling with post-race

, 81–85

(Re) production of race

, 49

Ready identity narratives as core to mixed race experiences

, 20–23

Respondents

, 75–76, 80, 118

formative moments

, 98, 118

memories

, 98, 118

narratives

, 71–72

School

, 103

Serial-multiple

, 53–58

Settler colonial state

, 43–45

Settler multiculturalism

, 115

Settler-Savage-Slave framework

, 7

Sexuality

, 16, 53, 120

Siblings

, 48, 62

Snowball sampling

, 16

Social spaces

, 95

Socio-economic status

, 16

Standard North American Family (SNAF)

, 44

Statistics Canada report

, 12–13

Structural racism

, 19

Superdiversity

, 5–6

Systemic racism

, 109–110

Terminology

, 67

Toronto

, 2, 13, 102

Toronto Census metropolitan area (Toronto CMA)

, 13

UK

, 3, 8

Uncertainty

, 56–57

(Un)collective possibilities

articulating affective politics of mixed race

, 119–125

Canadian context and

, 119–125

US

, 3, 8

US multiracial movement

, 8, 36

Visible minority

, 11–12, 75–76

What are you question

, 8–9, 20, 29–30, 45, 73, 80–81, 94

White racialized ethnicities

, 20–21, 28

White settler colonial states

, 3–6

White supremacy

, 7, 59–60, 120

Whiteness

, 89

Workplace

, 23–24, 98–99