The Transformation of Race Relations in Malaysia:

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" The Transformation of Race Relations in Malaysia: "
Raymond L.M. Lee

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063612
Doc. No	:	LA107241
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1569209041641804‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Raymond L.M. Lee
Title & Author	:	The Transformation of Race Relations in Malaysia: [Article] : From Ethnic Discourse to National Imagery, 1993-2003\ Raymond L.M. Lee
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/2
Page No	:	119–143
Abstract	:	Malaysians are under no illusion that they have shed their racial identities to embrace a single national identity. Yet the multiculturalism practiced in contemporary Malaysia seems to be compatible with a patriotic nationalism espoused by the government. This compatibility has the appearance of multiculturalism surviving the ordeal of postcolonial racial politics. The turbulence of racial politics seems to have been surpassed by a revitalized nationalism that does not blatantly erase racial heritage. The question of race relations in Malaysia is therefore a question of how multiculturalism and nationalism are successfully presented as icons of integration, overshadowing the more gritty issues of racial politics. These issues are not denied, but have become less transparent as national identity is developed in an arena of new images. Malaysians are under no illusion that they have shed their racial identities to embrace a single national identity. Yet the multiculturalism practiced in contemporary Malaysia seems to be compatible with a patriotic nationalism espoused by the government. This compatibility has the appearance of multiculturalism surviving the ordeal of postcolonial racial politics. The turbulence of racial politics seems to have been surpassed by a revitalized nationalism that does not blatantly erase racial heritage. The question of race relations in Malaysia is therefore a question of how multiculturalism and nationalism are successfully presented as icons of integration, overshadowing the more gritty issues of racial politics. These issues are not denied, but have become less transparent as national identity is developed in an arena of new images.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1569209041641804‬