{"id":20051,"date":"2012-01-22T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20051"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:59:48","slug":"multiple-realities-reconsidering-multiracialism-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20051","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

World Scientific Publishing<\/a>
\nSummer 2012
\n150 pages
\nISBN: 978-981-270-604-1; 981-270-604-6<\/p>\n

Eugene K. B. Tan<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Law
\nSingapore Management University, Singapore<\/em><\/p>\n

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 these important questions through a critical analysis of ethnic markers in key facets of Singaporean life, such as elections and race quotas in public housing, national service, ethnic self-help groups, the rise of \u201cChineseness\u201d and increased religious piety. The author challenges the conventional wisdom that multiracialism in Singapore is unequivocally race-blind or nonethnic in its approach. Instead, he argues that Singapore is an ethnic-conscious state wherein race, culture and language are instrumentally mobilized as key resources in nation-building and political governance. This could have potentially ethnic\/racial enhancing or polarizing effects, thus undermining the stability of the multiracial framework in Singapore.<\/p>\n

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