Race, ethnicity, and the state in Malaysia and Singapore /

This publication brings together the work of several writers in documenting and understanding the consequences of state-formation on ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore, thirty years after the two nations went their separate paths.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Lian, Kwen Fee, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006
Series:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 7.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • No longer "Other" : the emergence of the Eurasian community in Singapore / Alexius A. Pereira
  • Names as sites of identity construction, negotiation, and resistance : signifying Orang Asli in postcolonial Malaysia / Alice M. Nah
  • Growing up Malay in Singapore / Joseph Stimpfl
  • The Chinese in contemporary Malaysia / Tong Chee Kiong
  • The political and economic marginalization of Tamils in Malaysia / Lian Kwen Fee
  • Constructing and contesting "Singaporean Hinduism" / Vineeta Sinha
  • Chinese and Malays in Singapore : incomes, education and employment, 1954-1995 / Lee Kiat Jin
  • Post-independence educational change, identity and Huaxiaosheng intellectuals in Singapore : a case study of Chinese language teachers / Sai Siew Yee
  • Race and racialization in Malaysia and Singapore/ Lian Kwen Fee.