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.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIIList of IllustrationsIIIntroduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast AsiaWarwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial PhilippinesFrancis A. Gealogo2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay ArchipelagoRicardo Roque3 ‘Their Indonesian Forefathers’: Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific MigrationsHilary Howes4 Racialization in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific WarSandra Khor Manickam5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938–39Fenneke Sysling6 ‘The Salvational Currents of Emigration’: Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the end of the Nineteenth CenturyFlorentino Rodao7 The Mestizos of Kisar: An Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay ArchipelagoHans Pols and Warwick Anderson8 Race as a Religious Destiny: The Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French IndochinaJanet Alison HoskinsAfterword: A PreludeBronwen DouglasIndex