ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on mixed individuals who live in or have some claim to societies that do not recognize mixing and insist that all people there must be monoracial and behave in a monocultural fashion. It explores the dimensions of identity in India's Anglo-Indian community, a separate ethnic designation that arose in the late eighteenth century out of families with British colonizer fathers and Indian colonial subject mothers. The book also explores mixed-race identity negotiation in 'Being "mixed" in Malaysia: negotiating ethnic identity in a racialized context'. It shows that different mixed individuals employ different strategies when confronted with the four-part monoracial discourse of Malaysia's officially decreed racial system. Anglo-Indians amount to a prototypical long-term community that possesses an enduring, intermediate, mixed identity — like Peranakans in Southeast Asia or metis in Canada.
