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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812468803321

Titolo

Race, ethnicity, and the state in Malaysia and Singapore [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lian Kwen Fee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006

ISBN

1-281-39869-1

9786611398699

90-474-0946-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Social sciences in Asia, , 1567-2794 ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

LianKwen Fee <1950->

Disciplina

305.8009595

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Malaysia

Ethnicity - Singapore

Malaysia Ethnic relations

Malaysia Race relations

Singapore Ethnic relations

Singapore Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.