Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 5 – Conclusion)
In looking at all of the racialized/essentialist/Orientalist concepts that Trần Ngọc Thêm employs in his textbook, Searching for the True Nature of Vietnamese Culture (Tìm về bản sắc văn hóa…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 4)
Having developed a racialized/essentialist argument that Eurasia is divided into two main racial/cultural groups that can be described through various binary categories - East/West, Southeast/Northwest, agricultural/nomadic, static/dynamic - Trần Ngọc…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 3)
In his 1978 book, Orientalism, Edward Said documented how Western scholars and writers, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, produced knowledge about “the Orient” which, taken together (as a…