Full Description
Mixed racial and ethnic identities are topics of increasing interest around the world, yet studies of mixed race in Asia are rare, despite its particular salience for Asian societies.
Mixed Race in Asia seeks to reorient the field to focus on Asia, looking specifically at mixed race in China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and India. Through these varied case studies, this collection presents an insightful exploration of race, ethnicity, mixedness and belonging, both in the past and present. The thematic range of the chapters is broad, covering the complexity of lived mixed race experiences, the structural forces of particular colonial and post-colonial environments and political regimes, and historical influences on contemporary identities and cultural expressions of mixedness.
Adding significant richness and depth to existing theoretical frameworks, this enlightening volume develops markedly different understandings of, and recognizes nuances around, what it means to be mixed, practically, theoretically, linguistically and historically. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral and other researchers interested in fields such as Race and Ethnicity, Sociology and Asian Studies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mixed Race in Asia
Zarine L. Rocha and Farida Fozdar
Section one: China and Vietnam
Chapter One: "A Class by Themselves": Battles over Eurasian Schooling in Late-19th-Century Shanghai
Emma J. Teng
Chapter Two: Mixing Blood and Race: Representing Hunxue in Contemporary China
Cathryn Clayton
Chapter Three: Métis of Vietnam: An Historical Perspective on Mixed-Race Children from the French Colonial Period
Christina Firpo
Section two: South Korea and Japan
Chapter Four: Developing bilingualism in a largely monolingual society: Southeast Asian marriage migrants and multicultural families in South Korea
Mi Yung Park
Chapter Five: Haafu Identity in Japan: half, mixed or double?
Alexandra Shaitan and Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis
Chapter Six: Claiming Japaneseness: recognition, privilege and status in Japanese-Filipino 'mixed' ethnic identity constructions
Fiona-Katharina Seiger
Section three: Malaysia and Singapore
Chapter Seven: Being "Mixed" in Malaysia: Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity
Caryn Lim
Chapter Eight: Chinese, Indians and the Grey Space in between: Acceptance of Malaysian Chindians in a plural society
Rona Chandran
Chapter Nine: 'Our Chinese': The Mixedness of Peranakan Chinese Identities in Kelantan, Malaysia
Pue Giok Hun
Chapter Ten: Eurasian as Multiracial: mixed race, gendered categories and identity in Singapore
Zarine L. Rocha
Section four: India and Indonesia
Chapter Eleven: Is the Anglo-Indian 'Identity Crisis' a Myth?
Robyn Andrews
Chapter Twelve: When Hybridity Encounters Hindu Purity Fetish: Anglo-Indian Lived Experiences in an Indian Railway Town
Anjali Gera Roy
Chapter Thirteen: Sometimes white, sometimes Asian: Boundary-making among transnational mixed descent youth at an international school in Indonesia
Danau Tanu
Chapter Fourteen: Class, Race and Being Indo (Eurasian) in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia
Ros Hewett
Afterword
Paul Spickard
