TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Warwick AU - Roque,Ricardo TI - Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia T2 - Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023 SN - 9789004542983 AV - DS523.3 U1 - 305.800959 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Colonization KW - Southeast Asia KW - Race relations KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast Asia; Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque -- Chapter 1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial Philippines; Francis A. Gealogo -- Chapter 2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay Archipelago; Ricardo Roque -- Chapter 3 ‘Their Indonesian Forefathers’: Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific Migrations; Hilary Howes -- Chapter 4 Racialisation in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War; Sandra Khor Manickam -- Chapter 5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938–39; Fenneke Sysling -- Chapter 6 ‘The Salvational Currents of Emigration’: Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Florentino Rodao -- Chapter 7 The Mestizos of Kisar: an Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago; Hans Pols and Warwick Anderson -- Chapter 8 Race as a Religious Destiny: the Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French Indochina; Janet Alison Hoskins -- Chapter 9 Afterword: A Prelude; Bronwen Douglas -- Index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004542983 ER -