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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/19487| Title: | Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia Racializing Chineseness |
| Authors: | Tong, Chee Kiong |
| Keywords: | Racializing Chineseness |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Description: | The book aims to recast the theoretical ideas surrounding the issues of ethnic identity of the Chinese based on primary data collected in the various countries of Southeast Asia. One of the key focus is to problematize the label, Chineseness. It willbesuggestedthatChinesenessisadynamicratherthanastaticconcept,andthat theChinesedonotconstituteahomogenous group.Inthesamevein,theindigenous groups are also not homogenous. Labels such as “Thai,” “Indonesian,” “Burmese,”“Filipino,” are treated as problematic, not given. The discourse of identity and ethnicity, how individuals or groups of individuals, make sense of and negotiate their identities in multi-cultural societies, is the main focus of this book. Analysis will center on the “symbols” and “languages” employed to unite and demarcate groups. Additionally, it examines how self-perception and others’ perception are juxtaposed and mediated. In the process, the ambiguities, overlaps, and varieties of ethnic identity will be uncovered. |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/19487 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-481-8909-0 |
| Appears in Collections: | Gender |
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