'Barbarians' and 'younger brothers': The remaking of race in postcolonial Vietnam

Patricia Pelley

doi:10.1017/s0022463400007505

'Barbarians' and 'younger brothers': The remaking of race in postcolonial Vietnam

Patricia Pelley

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Abstract

In the 1950s, as part of a concerted effort to undermine colonialist representations of Vietnam, Vietnamese historians began to construct new narratives of the national past. To counter colonial impressions of Vietnam as a fragmented and heterogenous society, they insisted instead on its essential unity. This new history required that traditional understandings of ethnic identities and ethnic relations be radically rescripted.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	374-391
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Volume	29
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400007505
State	Published - Sep 1998

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