REAS READINGS

1. Brunei:
Shawatriqah & Hoon, The Cultural Identity of the Chinese-Malays in Brunei
Hazimah, The Iban of Melilas

Malaysia:
Nagata, What is a Malay?
Chua, Fixity and Flux (Bidayuh)

Refer to either Brunei or Malaysia

2. Hirschman, The Making of Race in Colonial Malaya (What is learnt after the
reading: how does colonialism contributes to race formation, what is
colonial condition that makes it influential? (Economic interest, ideological,
political)

3. Bonilla-Silva, Rethinking Racism

Lian & Appudurai, Race, Class, and Politics in Peninsular Malaysia
what is a racialized social system? Analyze racial conflict in peninsula
Malaysia? Relevance of race

4. Lian et al, Ethnic-formation and Social Change: The Lowland Dusun of

Brunei (What are their situation today regarding Brunei’s society,
acculturation exchange of ideas, customs, and assimilation (Milton Gordon
1964)
Hazimah, The Iban of Melilas

Notes:
Can discuss Brunei or Malaysia (2 readings)
Articulate your critical thinking from reading.
Race and ethnicity? Primordial (born with), instrumental, constructed.
Kinship you meet thus kinship identity. (The people you grew around with,
something you cannot run away from) what reflection?
Science contribution to race
In Borneo is more relevant to talk about ethnicity
Hijab’s influence 1979 Iranian revolution
Assimilation was seen as desirably accepted into the dominant community.
Assimilation (cultural/behavioral/structural/marital/identification)
MIB based entirely on assimilation. Opposite of assimilation = Integration
(process of becoming accepted part of that society
In brunei it is relevant to talk about cultural/behavioral, marital and
identificational. Not so much structural.
Not much more than 2bpages, write less and give direct point.