Overcoming passion for race in Malaysia cultural studies /

"Overcoming Passion" examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lim, David C. L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 19.
Temas:
Race awareness > Malaysia.
Conscience de race > Malaisie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race awareness
Race relations
Identität
Rasse > Motiv
Raspolitik > Malaysia.
Malaysia > raskonflikter.
Malaysia > Race relations.
Malaisie > Relations raciales.
Malaysia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Overcoming Passion" examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognize and act in accordance with the knowledge that race exists only insofar as its existence is sustained by the believer's belief in it. The contributors draw from a burgeoning but under-examined archive of Malaysia-related social texts
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 184 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047433705
904743370X
ISSN:1567-2794 ;

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