Imagined Racial Laboratories

Ricardo Roque (PhD Cambridge) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. Warwick Anderson (MD, Melbourne; PhD Pennsylvania) is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in Health, based in Anthropology and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. Additionally, he is an Honorary Professor in the Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.

Contents


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