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

Rocha, Zarine L.

doi:10.1080/07256868.2018.1486291

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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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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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“…Just as race is a constructed category, the idea of what constitutes 'mixing' itself can also be contested (e.g. Aspinall and Song 2013;Rocha 2018). To start with, determining whether or not a person or a couple is considered 'mixed' is context-dependent and relates directly to how we conceptualise groups and boundaries.…”

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