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Book SynopsisImagined 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.
Table of ContentsContents 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
