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Seeing Ethnicity Otherwise: From History, Classification and Terminology to Identities, Health and Mixedness in the Work of Peter J. Aspinall

A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 6027

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zarine L. Rocha

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1. Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
2. Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
Interests: mixed ethnic identities; ethnicity and race; belonging; applied sociology
Dr. Chamion Caballero

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The Mixed Museum, London EC1N 8UN, UK
Interests: race and ethnicity; particularly mixed race identities and histories; qualitative research
Prof. Dr. Brenda Saw Ai Yeoh

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Guest Editor
Geography and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore
Interests: postcolonial geographies; gender and migration; mixed marriage and identity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This commemorative Special Issue is dedicated to the life and work of Peter J. Aspinall, a prolific and innovative social scientist, and a generous and supportive colleague and friend. Over the years, Peter worked across many fields, from urban and regional analysis and health services research, to public health, ethnicity terminology and classifications, and mixed ethnic identities, inspiring many with his breadth and depth of knowledge and insight. His work was both theoretical and practical, drawing out key sociological and policy issues and seeking to make real change, providing that often elusive link between theorization and grounded work.

Peter passed away in early 2023, and, as his colleagues, we are organizing this Special Issue as a way to honour Peter’s contributions across a range of disciplines, and his commitment to his editorial work at Genealogy. We invite contributions which explore any of the vast range of topics that Peter focused on, from scholars who have worked with Peter, and from those who have learned from his scholarship. These fields include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Mixedness and critical mixed race studies;
  • Ethnicity and census classifications;
  • Terminology and classification;
  • Histories of race and ethnicity;
  • New approaches to mixedness, race and ethnicity;
  • Public health classifications and resources;
  • Ethnicity, health and illness;
  • Social identities, equality and human rights;
  • Population studies, classification and terminology;
  • Language, concepts and changing identities.

Contributions to this Special Issue will build on these topics, drawing on Peter’s vast body of work and reflecting on its societal relevance and theoretical developments, including linkages which Peter was able to articulate so clearly, and which continue to inspire us today. This Special Issue is our tribute to the continuing influence and legacy of Peter’s writing, as well as to the broadness and depth of his scholarship.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews of Peter’s work are welcome, as well as more personal reflections on working with Peter over the years.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200–500 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors or to the Genealogy editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of this Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Zarine L. Rocha
Dr. Chamion Caballero
Prof. Dr. Brenda Saw Ai Yeoh
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Genealogy is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Keywords

  • Peter J. Aspinall
  • ethnicity
  • race
  • classification
  • health
  • identity
  • mixedness
  • terminology
  • census

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Research Collaboration: What It Means to Work with Someone
by Miri Song
Genealogy 2024, 8(1), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8010022 - 24 Feb 2024
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I am very happy to contribute to this Special Issue on the works of Peter Aspinall [...] Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seeing Ethnicity Otherwise: From History, Classification and Terminology to Identities, Health and Mixedness in the Work of Peter J. Aspinall)

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Eurafrican Invisibility in Zambia’s Census as an Echo of Colonial Whiteness: The Case for a British Apology
by Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton
Genealogy 2025, 9(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy9010006 - 17 Jan 2025
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In this article, I argue that Eurafricans’ invisibility in Zambia’s national census, history, and social framework is an echo of colonial whiteness stemming from the destructive legacy of illegitimacy perpetuated by British officials in Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia) during the colonial era (1924–64), [...] Read more.
In this article, I argue that Eurafricans’ invisibility in Zambia’s national census, history, and social framework is an echo of colonial whiteness stemming from the destructive legacy of illegitimacy perpetuated by British officials in Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia) during the colonial era (1924–64), which continues to the present day. This is evidenced by the absence of Eurafricans in the Zambia national censuses. This contribution calls for the British government to apologise to the Eurafrican community for the legacy of illegitimacy and intergenerational racial trauma it bestowed on the community. Zambia’s tribal ‘ethnic’ and ‘linguistics’ census classification options prevent a comprehensive understanding of Zambia’s multi-racial history and the development of a hybrid space that embraces a ‘mixed-race’ Eurafrican (of European and African heritage) Zambian identity. Through an autoethnographic account of my Eurafrican uncle Aaron Milner, I reflect on Zambian Eurafricans’ historical racial positioning as ‘inferior interlopers’, which has contributed to their obscurity in Zambia’s national history and census. However, my reflection goes beyond Milner’s story in Zambia. It is my entryway to highlight how race and colonial whiteness interconnected and underpinned racial ideology in the wider British Empire, and to draw attention to its echoes in various contemporary sociopolitical contexts, including census terminology in Australia and Zambia and Western nations’ anti-Black immigration policies. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seeing Ethnicity Otherwise: From History, Classification and Terminology to Identities, Health and Mixedness in the Work of Peter J. Aspinall)
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Not Indian, Not African: Classifying the East African Asian Population in Aotearoa New Zealand
by Zarine L. Rocha and Robert Didham
Genealogy 2024, 8(4), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040141 - 13 Nov 2024
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This paper explores the challenges of measuring and classifying the East African Asian population in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a particularly diverse country, New Zealand has a significant and varied population of immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with [...] Read more.
This paper explores the challenges of measuring and classifying the East African Asian population in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a particularly diverse country, New Zealand has a significant and varied population of immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with immigrants of South Asian origin, from Fiji, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and East Africa. New Zealand’s system of ethnic classification relies on self-identification, with a broad definition of ethnicity encompassing heritage, ancestry, culture, language and feelings of belonging. However, the collection of this information at a granularity that enables detailed analysis is constrained for the South Asian population, regardless of origin or identification. People are typically presented with the choice of selecting “Indian” ethnicity as a tick box, or providing ethnicities under “Other” as write-in descriptors, which in turn are coded to a limited set of categories within the classification being used. This practice potentially conceals a diversity of ethnicities, which can only partially be hinted at by responses to questions relating to religions, languages and birthplaces, especially for second or third-generation descendants of migrants. Ethnic classification at the highest level, moreover, includes East African Indians as Asian, rather than African, reflecting diasporic heritage as a shorthand for ancestry and overlooking the relevance of layers of identity associated with the double diaspora. Drawing on Peter J. Aspinall’s work on collective terminology in ethnic data collection and categorizing the “Asian” ethnic group in the UK, this paper looks at the overlaps and disconnects between heritage, ethnicity and national belonging in classifying less clearcut identities. We explore the strengths and limitations of New Zealand’s self-identification approach to ethnic identity, and query what exactly is being asked of groups on the margins: when self-identification does not match external perception, are we looking for geographic, cultural, or genetic origins? A focus on the East African Asian population in Aotearoa highlights the complexity of identity for diasporic groups with distant ancestral links with India, as lived experience of cultural connection extends far beyond the bounds of ethnicity, language and even ancestry. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seeing Ethnicity Otherwise: From History, Classification and Terminology to Identities, Health and Mixedness in the Work of Peter J. Aspinall)
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A ‘Usable Past’?: Irish Affiliation in CANZUS Settler States
by Patrick Broman
Genealogy 2024, 8(3), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8030079 - 26 Jun 2024
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In a 2023 article in this journal, Esther and Michael Fitzpatrick wrote that “complicated are those diaspora people who yearn to claim ‘Irishness’ in their places as something distinct from colonial settlers”. An Irish identity seems to offer something unique in these contexts, [...] Read more.
In a 2023 article in this journal, Esther and Michael Fitzpatrick wrote that “complicated are those diaspora people who yearn to claim ‘Irishness’ in their places as something distinct from colonial settlers”. An Irish identity seems to offer something unique in these contexts, having been embraced by Joe Biden, for example, as a keystone of his political identity. In this article, I utilise census data from the four primary Anglo-settler polities of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States to demonstrate the comparatively greater extent that Irish ethnic antecedents are remembered by local-born Whites. While acknowledging that drivers of ethnic affiliation are personal and multifaceted, and not directly discernible from answers on a questionnaire, I consider the nature of Irishness as a political identity in settler-colonial contexts. Full article
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“Boys and Men”: The Making of Senegambian and Congolese Masculinity and Identities in Tropical Africa: A Reflection
by Martha Judith Chinouya and Sarah Lewis-Newton
Genealogy 2025, 9(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy9010010 - 27 Jan 2025
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Our paper focuses on two white pioneering scientists, Dr Dutton, who was English, and Dr Todd, a Canadian, employed by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) to study sleeping sickness in colonial Senegambia, West Africa. We analysed photographs and some published personal [...] Read more.
Our paper focuses on two white pioneering scientists, Dr Dutton, who was English, and Dr Todd, a Canadian, employed by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) to study sleeping sickness in colonial Senegambia, West Africa. We analysed photographs and some published personal letters to help us reflect on some of their constructions of Senegambian and Congolese male identities in tropical colonial Africa. In this paper, we connect with the history of tropical medicine, a precursor to public health. Public health was a research area that was central to Peter Aspinall’s work as he argued for shifts from simplistic hegemonic terminologies to refer to an incredibly diverse Black African population, as failure to do so impacts on service provisions. Within the context of tropical medicine, we reflect on the paternalistic terminology and use of the word ‘boy’ to refer to their unnamed male helpers who they photographed during these expeditions. We hope that by interpreting the photographs and reflecting on the literature and letters, exercises that are influenced by our positionality, we can obtain a glimpse into the past and obtain some insights that contribute to our understanding of the production of colonial masculinities, terminology, and race. As female authors employed by LSTM, we are aware that our positionalities influence the lenses through which we view and interpret the literature and the photos. Our paper contributes towards the ongoing debates on terminology, race, and whiteness in colonial tropical medicine. Full article
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