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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Race and Ethnicity in Asia Part 1: South Asia Chapter 2. "Race in Contemporary India Chapter 3. Ethnic Violence in India Chapter 4. Ethnopolitics in Nepal Chapter 5. Ethnicity and Identity Politics in in Sri Lanka Chapter 6. Ethnic Movements and the State in Pakistan: A Politics of Ethnicity Perspective Part 2: Southeast Asia Chapter 7. Asian Federalism, Race and Ethnicity Chapter 8. Race Relations and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Myanmar Chapter 9. Ethnicity in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos Chapter 10. Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia Chapter 11. Ethnicity and Electoral Systems in Southeast Asia Chapter 12. Ethnic and National Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Origins, Contestation, and Polarization Part 3: East Asia Chapter 13. Ethnicity in China Chapter 14. Being Muslim and Chinese hapter 15. Tibet: from conflict to protest hapter 16. Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang and Its International Connections hapter 17. Ethnic Chinese (Hwagyo) Identity Formation and Transformation in South Korea hapter 18. Multiculturalism in Korea hapter 19. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Japan Chapter 20. Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Education: The Ainu of Japan Chapter 21. Burakumin: A Discursive History of Difference Chapter 22. "Conceptualizing and Re-conceptualizing Ethnic Identities in Taiwan Part 4: Australasia and Oceania Chapter 23. The Preservation of Indigenous Cultures in Hawai'i Chapter 24. Race and Multiculturalism in Australia Chapter 25. Mobility and Migration in Remote Oceania: World Enlargement meets the Cartographic Imaginary Chapter 26. Race and Ethnicity in the Bonin Islands Chapter 27. Indigenous peoples: citizenship and self-determination - Australia, Fiji and New Zealand Chapter 28. Okinawan-Japanese-Hawaiian Identities
About the author
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.
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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.
