Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 514-551

  Stoler, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL AREA; CULTURAL POLITICS; DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE; EUROPEAN IDENTITY; HISTORICAL STUDIES; RACIAL FRONTIER;

ASIA, (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 0027089441     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001041750001793X     Document Type: Article

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