Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 240 p.)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0203878175
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9781282153554
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9780203878170
Series Statement:
Routledge Malaysian studies series 8
Content:
This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives showing: how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism - and multicultural practices - have developed over time
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Postcoloniality, race and multiculturalism; Part I Postcolony and cosmopolis; 1 A literary history of race: Reading Singapore literature in English in an historical frame; 2 Malaysian history textbooks and the discourse of ketuanan Melayu; 3 Eyes turned towards China: Postcolonial mimicry, transcultural elitism and Singapore Chineseness; 4 Pick and mix for a global city: Race and cosmopolitanism in Singapore
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5 Makkal Sakthi: The Hindraf effect, race and postcolonial democracy in MalaysiaPart II Representing race, performing multiculturalism; 6 Reading the films of independent filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad: Cosmopolitanism, Sufi Islam and Malay subjectivity; 7 Racial stereotypes in Singapore films: Commercial value and critical possibilities; 8 The Singapore Indian woman: A symptom in the quest for Chinese identity; 9 Deghettoizing subcultures: The multicultural evolution of Mat Rock in Singapore; 10 Bhangra and the reconstruction of 'Punjabi-ness' in multiracial Singapore
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11 The art of race: Rethinking Malaysian identity through the art of Wong Hoy CheongConclusion: Toward a critical multiculturalism; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
0415482259
Additional Edition:
9780415482257
Additional Edition:
Print version Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore
Language:
English
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