Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies

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ID19913010
EditorsDavid C L Lim (0000-0003-3566-5486)
Year2008
Pages184
Publication date2008-05-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOvercoming passion for race in Malaysia cultural studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004168152.i-184
OpenAlexW639607629
Open LibraryOL29585699M
ISBN9789004168152
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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 recognise 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, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Falsity · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Passion · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Malaysia · Race awareness · race relations · Social conditions

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