Farida Fozdar

Zarine L. Rocha

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: mixed race in Asia -- Part I China and Vietnam -- 1 'A class by themselves': battles over Eurasian schooling in late-nineteenth-century Shanghai -- 2 Mixing blood and race: representing Hunxue in contemporary China -- 3 Métis of Vietnam: an historical perspective on mixed-race children from the French colonial period -- Part II South Korea and Japan -- 4 Developing bilingualism in a largely monolingual society: Southeast Asian marriage migrants and multicultural families in South Korea -- 5 Haafu identity in Japan: half, mixed or double? -- 6 Claiming Japaneseness: recognition, privilege and status in Japanese-Filipino 'mixed' ethnic identity constructions -- Part III Malaysia and Singapore -- 7 Being 'mixed' in Malaysia: negotiating ethnic identity in a racialized context -- 8 Chinese, Indians and the grey space in between: strategies of identity work among Chindians in a plural society -- 9 'Our Chinese': the mixedness of Peranakan Chinese identities in Kelantan, Malaysia -- 10 Eurasian as multiracial: mixed race, gendered categories and identity in Singapore -- Part IV India and Indonesia -- 11 Is the Anglo-Indian'identity crisis' a myth? -- 12 Performing Britishness in a railway colony: production of Anglo-Indiansas a railway caste -- 13 Sometimes white, sometimes Asian: boundary-making among transnational mixed descent youth at an international school in Indonesia -- 14 Class, race and being Indo (Eurasian) in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia -- Afterword -- Index

Past, Present and Future

Mixed Race in Asia

Peter J. Aspinall

This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world. The classification of race and ethnicity by the state is a common way to organize and make sense of populations in many countries, from the national census and birth and death records, to identity cards and household surveys. As populations have grown, diversified, and become increasingly transnational and mobile, single and mutually exclusive categories struggle to adequately capture the complexity of identities and heritages in multicultural societies. State motivations for classification vary widely, and have shifted over time, ranging from subjugation and exclusion to remediation and addressing inequalities. The chapters in this handbook illustrate how differing histories and contemporary realities have led states to count and classify mixedness in different ways, for different reasons. This collection will serve as a key reference point on the international classification of mixed race and ethnicity for students and scholars across sociology, ethnic and racial studies, and public policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

Zarine L. Rocha

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