1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia
The Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia introduces theoretical approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and indigeneity in Asia beyond those commonly grounded in the Western experience.
The volume’s twenty-eight chapters consider not only the relationship between ethnic or racial minorities and the state, but social relations within and between individual and transnational communities. These shape not only the contours of governance, but also the means by which knowledge of national identity, ‘self ’, and ‘other’ have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Divided into four sections, it provides holistic and comparative coverage of South, South East, and East Asia, as well as Australasia and Oceania; an area that extends from Pakistan in the West to Hawai’i in the East.
Contributors to this handbook offer a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, opening a domain of scholarship wherein the relationship between phenotype and racism is less pronounced than European and North American approaches, which have often privileged the so-called ‘colour stigmata’, leading to further exclusions of particular ethnic, racial, and indigenous communities.
This volume seeks to overcome racism and white ideologies embedded in theories of race and ethnicity in Asia, proving a valuable resource to both students and scholars of comparative racial and ethnic studies, international relations and human rights.
Chapter 1. Race and Ethnicity in Asia
Michael A. Weiner
Part 1: South Asia
Chapter 2. "Race in Contemporary India
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Chapter 3. Ethnic Violence in India
Ajay Verghese
Chapter 4. Ethnopolitics in Nepal
Krishna B. Bhattachan
Chapter 5. Ethnicity and Identity Politics in in Sri Lanka
Asoka Bandarage
Chapter 6. Ethnic Movements and the State in Pakistan: A Politics of Ethnicity Perspective
Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
Part 2: Southeast Asia
Chapter 7. Asian Federalism, Race and Ethnicity
Baogang He and Laura Allison-Reumann
Chapter 8. Race Relations and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Myanmar
Kunal Mukherjee
Chapter 9. Ethnicity in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos
Sophal Ear and Gaea Morales
Chapter 10. Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia
Shane J. Barter
Chapter 11. Ethnicity and Electoral Systems in Southeast Asia
Joel Sawat Selway
Chapter 12. Ethnic and National Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Origins, Contestation, and Polarization
Kai Ostwald and Isabel Chew
Part 3: East Asia
Chapter 13. Ethnicity in China
Thomas Heberer
Chapter 14. Being Muslim and Chinese
Jonathan Lipman
Chapter 15. Tibet: from conflict to protest
Ben Hillman
Chapter 16. Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang and Its International Connections
Yu-Wen Chen
Chapter 17. Ethnic Chinese (Hwagyo) Identity Formation and Transformation in South Korea
Nora Hui-Jung Kim
Chapter 18. Multiculturalism in Korea
Timothy C. Lim
Chapter 19. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Japan
Oguma Eiji
Chapter 20. Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Education: The Ainu of Japan
Jeffry Gayman
Chapter 21. Burakumin: A Discursive History of Difference
Timothy D. Amos
Chapter 22. "Conceptualizing and Re-conceptualizing Ethnic Identities in Taiwan
Fu-chang Wang
Part 4: Australasia and Oceania
Chapter 23. The Preservation of Indigenous Cultures in Hawai’i
Davianna Pōmaika’ McGregor
Chapter 24. Race and Multiculturalism in Australia
Martina Boese
Chapter 25. Mobility and Migration in Remote Oceania: World Enlargement meets the Cartographic Imaginary
Edward D. Lowe
Chapter 26. Race and Ethnicity in the Bonin Islands
David Chapman
Chapter 27. Indigenous peoples: citizenship and self-determination – Australia, Fiji and New Zealand
Dominic O’Sullivan
Chapter 28. Okinawan-Japanese-Hawaiian Identities
Akari Osuna and Michael A. Weiner
Biography
Michael Weiner is Professor of East Asian History and International Studies. Among his publications are The Origins of the Korean Community on Japan; 1910–1923 (1989), The Internationalization of Japan, co-editor (1992), Race and Migration in Imperial Japan (1994), Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity (1997, 2009), Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan, ed. (2005), and The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, co-editor (2017). He is the former Managing Editor of Japan Forum.
