Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity

This paper explores the identity negotiations of the Baweanese in Singapore, one of the many sub-ethnic groups that make up the Malay racial category. The paper shows that race and ethnicity are are very salient sites of identity in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Yet, the simple CMIO racial cat...

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Main Author: Muhammad Afiq Mohd Yusoff
Other Authors: Md Saidul Islam
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-624012019-12-10T12:58:17Z Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity Muhammad Afiq Mohd Yusoff Md Saidul Islam School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication This paper explores the identity negotiations of the Baweanese in Singapore, one of the many sub-ethnic groups that make up the Malay racial category. The paper shows that race and ethnicity are are very salient sites of identity in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Yet, the simple CMIO racial categories ignores the internal diversity that exists within each group. The paper looked at how members of the Baweanese community negotiate these complexities and make sense of their sub-ethnic group identities against the competing state-defined ‘Malay’ identity. Using a multi-directional qualitative study, it studied the perspectives of two generations of Baweanese, gen-X and gen-Y, on sub-ethnic group identity, identity construction and markers of identity. Bachelor of Arts 2015-03-31T09:01:03Z 2015-03-31T09:01:03Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62401 en 35 p. application/pdf
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Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity
description This paper explores the identity negotiations of the Baweanese in Singapore, one of the many sub-ethnic groups that make up the Malay racial category. The paper shows that race and ethnicity are are very salient sites of identity in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Yet, the simple CMIO racial categories ignores the internal diversity that exists within each group. The paper looked at how members of the Baweanese community negotiate these complexities and make sense of their sub-ethnic group identities against the competing state-defined ‘Malay’ identity. Using a multi-directional qualitative study, it studied the perspectives of two generations of Baweanese, gen-X and gen-Y, on sub-ethnic group identity, identity construction and markers of identity.
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author Muhammad Afiq Mohd Yusoff
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title Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity
title_short Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity
title_full Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity
title_fullStr Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity
title_full_unstemmed Singapore's Baweanese : making sense of a Malay sub-ethnic group identity
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