{"id":10932,"date":"2010-12-20T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T23:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2014-12-13T22:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T22:25:55","slug":"naming-the-subject-recovering-euro-asian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10932","title":{"rendered":"Naming the Subject: Recovering “Euro-Asian” History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naming the Subject: Recovering “Euro-Asian” History<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Journal of Women’s History<\/a>
\nVolume 22, Number 4<\/a>, Winter 2010
\npages 257-262
\nE-ISSN: 1527-2036, Print ISSN: 1042-7961<\/p>\n

Emma J. Teng<\/a><\/strong>, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations; Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

The historic election of Barack Obama<\/a> as America\u2019s first biracial president has drawn attention once again to a phenomenon that has been gathering momentum since the 1990s: that is, the movement among so-called \u201cmultiracial\u201d or \u201cmixed-race\u201d people for recognition, both political and cultural. Although the American media has mostly focused on the multiracial movement in the US, this push for recognition actually has global dimensions. Kumari Jayawardena\u2019s<\/a> Erasure of the Euro-Asian: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia<\/a><\/em> is among the latest in a spate of books published in Asia that seeks to restore those of Asian\/European ancestry to the historical record, including Michael Roberts, et al., People Inbetween: The Burghers and the Middle Class in the Transformation within Sri Lanka<\/em> (1989), Myrna Braga-Blake\u2019s Singapore Eurasians\u2014Memories and Hopes<\/em> (1992), and Vicki Lee\u2019s Being Eurasian: Memories across Racial Divides<\/a><\/em> (2004).\u00a0 In fact, if Paul Spickard<\/a> identified a \u201cbiracial biography boom\u201d in the US during the 1990s, we seem to be currently in the midst of a \u201cEurasian publishing boom\u201d that spans the globe from Asia, to Australia, Europe, and the US.\u00a0 This publishing trend includes not only academic books like Jayawardena’s, but also memoirs, family biographies\/genealogies, dictionaries, musical CDs, and even cookbooks.<\/strong>\u00a0 It further includes projects such as the Anglo Indian Heritage Books series, which reprints classic works such as H.A. Stark\u2019s Hostages to India<\/em> (1926) and Cedric Dover\u2019s Cimmerii?: or Eurasians and Their Future<\/em> (1929).<\/p>\n

What does Jayawardena’s book add to the mix? Although South Asian studies is beyond my own field, I can say…<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naming the Subject: Recovering “Euro-Asian” History Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 257-262 E-ISSN: 1527-2036, Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Emma J. Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations; Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology The historic election of Barack Obama as America\u2019s first biracial president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,8],"tags":[4776,12965,4777,4778,4762,4769],"class_list":["post-10932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-emma-j-teng","tag-emma-jinhua-teng","tag-emma-teng","tag-journal-of-womens-histor","tag-kumari-jayawardena","tag-vicky-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}