Imagined racial laboratories : : colonial and national racialisations in Southeast Asia / / edited by Ricardo Roque, Warwick Anderson.

• Superior document: Brill's Southeast Asian Library ; v.10
• Author: Roque, Ricardo.
• TeilnehmendeR: Anderson, Warwick.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Southeast Asian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 pages)

Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. It brings together critical histories of race sciences that demonstrate that racialisation took -- and continues to take -- mutable and multiple forms in the region.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial Philippines -- Chapter 2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay Archipelago -- Chapter 3 'Their Indonesian Forefathers': Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific Migrations -- Chapter 4 Racialisation in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War -- Chapter 5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938-39 -- Chapter 6 'The Salvational Currents of Emigration': Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 7 The Mestizos of Kisar: an Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago -- Chapter 8 Race as a Religious Destiny: the Vietnamese as "God's Chosen People" in French Indochina -- Chapter 9 Afterword: A Prelude -- Index.