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  • S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids

    S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids The Straits Times Singapore Forum Letters 2013-03-16 Peter Wadeley MRS MARIETTA Koh Ai-meng (“Citizens have every right to expect privileges”; last Saturday) claims that rising consciousness of what it means to be Singaporean should not be decried as chauvinistic or jingoistic. Last year, former president S R Nathan said…

  • That’s How It Goes: Autobiography Of A Singapore Eurasian

    That’s How It Goes: Autobiography Of A Singapore Eurasian Select Books 2008 235 pages Paperback ISBN: 9789814022392 F. A. C. “Jock” Oehlers These memoirs by a member of one of Singapore’s leading Eurasian families offers many sidelights onto Singapore’s life in the mid-20th century. The author, then a dental student, tells of the hardships of…

  • Racing ahead, going nowhere

    Racing ahead, going nowhere Very Fine Commentary 2011-04-17 Yoong Ren Yan, Editor Are we running around in circles with our policies on race? Racism is bad. What more is there to say?” It may not have been the case just 50 years ago in the time of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but in…

  • Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore

    Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore World Scientific Publishing Summer 2012 150 pages ISBN: 978-981-270-604-1; 981-270-604-6 Eugene K. B. Tan, Assistant Professor of Law Singapore Management University, Singapore How has Singapore’s multiracialism policy evolved, and how has it impacted on ethnic relations and nation-building in a secure, yet perpetually vulnerable, Singapore? This important book addresses…

  • Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore

    Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2009-10-18 through 2009-10-22 Coex, Seoul, Korea 9 pages Leong Koon Chan, Associate Professor School of Design Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Multiracialism and bilingualism are key concepts for national ideology and policy in the management of…

  • It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage

    It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage The Straits Times Singapore 2012-01-11 Amanda Tan One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so. This full-year figure, released for the first time to The…

  • Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore

    Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Volume 30, Number 3 (2011) pages 95-131 ISSN: 1868-4882 (online), ISSN: 1868-1034 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore “Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization…

  • Racial Realities: Social Constructs and the Stuff of Which They Are Made

    Racial Realities: Social Constructs and the Stuff of Which They Are Made Global Dialogue Volume 12, Number 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010)—Race and Racisms Eric C. Thompson, Associate Professor of Sociology National University of Singapore How can we deny the reality of race? It is a truth so many hold to be self-evident. Travel around the world,…

  • The Rulers and the Ruled: the Singapore Eurasian community under the British and the Japanese

    The Rulers and the Ruled: the Singapore Eurasian Community Under the British and the Japanese National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University 1999 DS610.25.E87 Con John Gregory Conceicao Mixed-race populations provide a challenging and fascinating subject for historical enquiry as they blend multiple cultures and, in the process, give rise to unique social and political…

  • The Revitalization of Eurasian Identity in Singapore

    The Revitalization of Eurasian Identity in Singapore Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science Volume 25, Number 2 (1997) pages 7-24 DOI: 10.1163/030382497X00149 Alexius Pereira This paper accounts for the revitalization of Eurasian identity in the 1990s. The revitalization was instrumental, as Eurasians had found themselves socially marginalized, particularly since the other ethnic groups were becoming…