{"id":36079,"date":"2014-03-20T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36079"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:28:47","slug":"stretching-out-the-categories-chineseeuropean-narratives-of-mixedness-belonging-and-home-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36079","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stretching out the categories\u2019: Chinese\/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796813505554\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018Stretching out the categories\u2019: Chinese\/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnicities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/14\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Number 2<\/a> (April 2014)<br \/>\npages 279-302<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796813505554\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1468796813505554<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/soc\/grad\/students\/phD\/zarine.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zarine L. Rocha<\/strong><\/a>, Research Scholar<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>National University of Singapore<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singapore\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore<\/a>. Increasingly, the idea of \u2018mixed race\u2019 and new conceptions of mixedness are challenging such classification along racial lines. Although contemporary Singapore is extremely diverse, the underlying ideology of multiracialism remains grounded in distinctly racialized groups, leaving little space for more complex individual identities. This paper explores the identifications of individuals of mixed Chinese and European descent in the Singaporean context, looking at how complexity is lived within firmly racialized structures. Drawing on a series of 20 narrative interviews, this research examines the relationship between categorization and identity, focusing on the identities of individuals with multiple national, cultural and ethnic ties. The practical impacts of racial categorization shape many aspects of life in Singapore, and individuals of mixed descent illustrated a constant tension between official categorization and personal mixedness, seen in the frustrations experienced and strategies developed by individuals around race and belonging. Individuals negotiated their connections around race and nationality both in practical terms around language, social policies and culture, and personally in terms of symbolic feelings of connection.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/14\/2\/279.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Stretching out the categories\u2019: Chinese\/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore Ethnicities Volume 14, Number 2 (April 2014) pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1177\/1468796813505554 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of \u2018mixed race\u2019 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,4405,394],"tags":[994,3519,3551,3553,3552],"class_list":["post-36079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-socialscience","tag-ethnicities","tag-singapore","tag-zarine-l-rocha","tag-zarine-lia-rocha","tag-zarine-rocha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}