Class, race and being Indo (Eurasian) in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia

Hewett, Rosalind

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“…Encompassing a vast range of communities, ethnicities, languages, political systems, and colonial histories, Asia is home to a plethora of mixed racial and ethnic identities. Importantly, mixing can have many meanings in the region, particularly given the continued salience of historical mixed identities and communities based around mixedness, such as the Anglo-Indians in India, the Indos in Indonesia, the Peranakans in Southeast Asia and the Eurasians in Malaysia and Singapore (Andrews, 2017;Hewett, 2017Hewett, , 2018Rocha, 2018;Rocha & Fozdar, 2017a;Tan, 1993;Yeoh et al, 2019). The more straightforward theoretical and social understanding of mixed race/ethnicity as the direct outcome of mixes between two separate groups certainly applies in Asia, particularly as contemporary migration flows intensify, group boundaries overlap, and population diversity increases.…”

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Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore

Yeoh

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Rocha

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Journal of Family Issues

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This paper tracks and explores the generational changes in the dynamics of racial identity and identification of Eurasians in Singapore, as reflected in family life. Eurasians are a historic mixed-descent community originating in the mixing of European and Asian cultures in the region since the 16th century. By analysing the embodied enactment and negotiation of mixed identities intergenerationally in the spheres of marriage and language choices, the paper reveals how families express and construct what it means to be Eurasian in the Singaporean context. This study draws on 30 interviews with self-identified Eurasians over two generations, including six paired intra-family interviews, illustrating intergenerational identity shifts. While the boundedness of racial identification appeared to be the norm for earlier generations, a tempering of race as a boundary marker and an openness to changing familial rhythms have served to encourage a lowering of race consciousness among younger Eurasians in Singapore.

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Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore

Yeoh

Acedera

Rocha

et al. 2020

Journal of Family Issues

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“…During the Dutch colonization in Indonesia, mixed marriages occurred between the Dutch soldiers and Indonesian local women (indigenous). The result of this mixed marriage is known to be called 'Indos' which is now best known to describe Indonesian in general with mixed descent in Europe (Hewett, 2017). However, during the colonial era, 'Indos' belongs to the lower rank of the European social class, while for the Indonesian local community 'Indos' was included in the upper-class category who used could go to school, have a job, and so on (H. Sjaardema, 1946;Hewett, 2017;Rutten, 2017).…”

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“…The result of this mixed marriage is known to be called 'Indos' which is now best known to describe Indonesian in general with mixed descent in Europe (Hewett, 2017). However, during the colonial era, 'Indos' belongs to the lower rank of the European social class, while for the Indonesian local community 'Indos' was included in the upper-class category who used could go to school, have a job, and so on (H. Sjaardema, 1946;Hewett, 2017;Rutten, 2017). Hewett later mentioned in her other work, that no matter how different their background and history, every Indonesians with mixed European descent will be known as 'Indos' (Hewett, 2019).…”

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Colorism “Ideology”: The Legacy of Colonial Mentality in The Jakarta’s Gen-Z Mixed-Race

Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

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Colonialism left a big impact on power relations at the social level. One of the most prominent is the ideology of "colorism" which sees a person's position and ranking based on racial features and skin color, thus created racial hierarchy. The problem is, this indication is still happening today, the lifetime of Generation Z (Gen-Z) who was born in the 21st century, when the world has become increasingly converged by globalization and easy access to information. The "ideology" of colorism still persists by placing the white race as a race that is considered superior and has higher privileges compared to the "indigenous" race. But we wanted to explore whether the same trend holds true for Gen-Z of white and "indigenous" descent. Through the Postcolonial approach, we conducted a survey of 152 respondents and semi-structured interviews of mixed race and "indigenous" people in Jakarta and found that the colorism tendency only applies to those who are fully "white", but not fully to mixed races. However, this mixed race still gets a lot of benefits from this racial condition, as well as often finds discrimination.

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Re-viewing Race and Mixedness: Mixed Race in Asia and the Pacific

Rocha

2018

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Class, race and being Indo (Eurasian) in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia

Cited by 5 publications

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Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore

Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore

Colorism “Ideology”: The Legacy of Colonial Mentality in The Jakarta’s Gen-Z Mixed-Race

Re-viewing Race and Mixedness: Mixed Race in Asia and the Pacific

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