For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of this child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.

Christina Elizabeth Firpo is associate professor of Southeast Asian history at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.