"You're not like other Malays": understanding the Singaporean Malay identity, its ethnicised discourses and the racial identification process

• Main Author: Nur Faeza Bte Mohamed Kefli
• Other Authors: Felicity Chan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73700
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore offered an interesting case to study race relations. In the public sphere, racial identities were highly regulated by its government via the Chinese-Malay-Indian-Other (CMIO) model. In the private sphere, the interpretation and articulation of racial identities beyond CMIO parameters were...