Mixed Race in Asia

Zarine L. Rocha is the Managing Editor of Current Sociology and the Asian Journal of Social ScienceFarida Fozdar is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology, at The University of Western Australia

Mixed Race in Asia represents an important advance in both our theorizing and documentation of the multiple and varied forms of ‘mixing’ in a non-Western context. While Asia – in all its diversity – cannot be understood without reference to its colonial histories, this volume illuminates the pressing need to learn about what mixed race and mixing mean today in societies grappling with social change.Miri Song, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology, & Social Research, University of Kent, UKIn the context of Asia where ‘race’ often holds considerable salience as a socio-political category, this volume turns the spotlight on the lived experiences of mixed race identities. Across a broad range of Asian societies from those that bear the marks of postcolonial plurality such as Singapore and Malaysia to those where nationhood is predicated on claims to racial homogeneity such as Japan and Korea, the authors provide us rare insight into both the pathologies and privileges of racial mixing.Brenda S.A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore, SingaporeThis is a breakthrough volume for mixed race studies. It opens up a new set of regional perspectives, to provide us with fascinating insights into aspects of mixedness in the Asian context. Rocha and Fozdar are to be congratulated on putting together a unique contribution to the field.Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, UK

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Mixed Race in AsiaZarine L. Rocha and Farida FozdarSection one: China and VietnamChapter One: "A Class by Themselves": Battles over Eurasian Schooling in Late-19th-Century ShanghaiEmma J. TengChapter Two: Mixing Blood and Race: Representing Hunxue in Contemporary ChinaCathryn ClaytonChapter Three: Métis of Vietnam: An Historical Perspective on Mixed-Race Children from the French Colonial PeriodChristina FirpoSection two: South Korea and JapanChapter Four: Developing bilingualism in a largely monolingual society: Southeast Asian marriage migrants and multicultural families in South Korea Mi Yung ParkChapter 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 constructionsFiona-Katharina SeigerSection three: Malaysia and SingaporeChapter Seven: Being "Mixed" in Malaysia: Perspectives on Ethnic DiversityCaryn LimChapter Eight: Chinese, Indians and the Grey Space in between: Acceptance of Malaysian Chindians in a plural society Rona ChandranChapter Nine: ‘Our Chinese’: The Mixedness of Peranakan Chinese Identities in Kelantan, MalaysiaPue Giok HunChapter Ten: Eurasian as Multiracial: mixed race, gendered categories and identity in SingaporeZarine L. RochaSection four: India and IndonesiaChapter Eleven: Is the Anglo-Indian ‘Identity Crisis’ a Myth? Robyn AndrewsChapter Twelve: When Hybridity Encounters Hindu Purity Fetish: Anglo-Indian Lived Experiences in an Indian Railway Town Anjali Gera RoyChapter 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 IndonesiaRos HewettAfterwordPaul Spickard