Full Description
Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took — and continues to take — mutable and multiple forms that often connect, perhaps more than differentiate, colonial and national periods across a variety of Southeast Asian settings. Thus, imagined races have contributed as much to the invention of modern Southeast Asia as have other fabled imagined communities.
Contents
Contents
AcknowledgementsII
List of IllustrationsII
Introduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast Asia
Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque
1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial Philippines
Francis A. Gealogo
2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay Archipelago
Ricardo Roque
3 'Their Indonesian Forefathers': Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific Migrations
Hilary Howes
4 Racialization in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War
Sandra Khor Manickam
5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938-39
Fenneke Sysling
6 'The Salvational Currents of Emigration': Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the end of the Nineteenth Century
Florentino Rodao
7 The Mestizos of Kisar: An Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago
Hans Pols and Warwick Anderson
8 Race as a Religious Destiny: The Vietnamese as "God's Chosen People" in French Indochina
Janet Alison Hoskins
Afterword: A Prelude
Bronwen Douglas
Index
