ABSTRACT

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|12 pages

Race and ethnicity in Asia

An introduction

part I|78 pages

South Asia

chapter 2|16 pages

Race in contemporary India

chapter 3|15 pages

Ethnic violence in India 1

chapter 5|17 pages

Ethnicity and identity politics in Sri Lanka

The origin and evolution of Tamil separatism

chapter 6|14 pages

Ethnic movements and the state in Pakistan

A politics of ethnicity perspective

part II|90 pages

Southeast Asia

part III|150 pages

East Asia

chapter 13|18 pages

Ethnicity in China

chapter 14|18 pages

Being Muslim and Chinese

chapter 15|12 pages

Tibetans in China

From conflict to protest

chapter 19|15 pages

Racial and ethnic identities in Japan

chapter 21|14 pages

Burakumin

A discursive history of difference

part IV|92 pages

Australasia and Oceania

chapter 25|16 pages

Mobility and migration in remote Oceania

World enlargement meets the cartographic imaginary

chapter 26|12 pages

History and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

Connecting Japan and the Pacific

chapter 27|15 pages

Indigenous peoples

Citizenship and self-determination – Australia, Fiji and New Zealand