Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore
Following the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests after the death of George Floyd, many, especially racial minorities, took to social media to lend support to BLM and verbalise their lived experiences which challenge taken-for-granted notions of ‘multiracialism,’ and ‘racial harmony’ in Singapore. How...
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| author | Rajasingam, Shantini |
| author2 | Lim Khek Gee, Francis |
| author_facet | Lim Khek Gee, Francis Rajasingam, Shantini |
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| description | Following the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests after the death of George Floyd, many, especially racial minorities, took to social media to lend support to BLM and verbalise their lived experiences which challenge taken-for-granted notions of ‘multiracialism,’ and ‘racial harmony’ in Singapore. However, citing the vastly different contexts, others criticised them for doing so. Using the Diffusion Theory, this paper explores the following: What is the perceived (ir)relevance of BLM in understanding local race issues to Singaporean youths? How has social media mediated the impacts of this larger transnational movement on local race discussions? Through 20 in-depth interviews with youths of various racial categories, including the Black diaspora, this paper illuminates the ways in which transnational solidarity was formed around the core value of social justice for marginalised groups, with social media facilitating this process. Concurrently, it reveals that race discussions need to be more nuanced moving forward.
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, Diffusion Theory, Chinese Privilege, racism, Singapore, blackness |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1608362023-03-05T15:41:46Z Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore Rajasingam, Shantini Lim Khek Gee, Francis School of Social Sciences fkglim@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Sociology Following the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests after the death of George Floyd, many, especially racial minorities, took to social media to lend support to BLM and verbalise their lived experiences which challenge taken-for-granted notions of ‘multiracialism,’ and ‘racial harmony’ in Singapore. However, citing the vastly different contexts, others criticised them for doing so. Using the Diffusion Theory, this paper explores the following: What is the perceived (ir)relevance of BLM in understanding local race issues to Singaporean youths? How has social media mediated the impacts of this larger transnational movement on local race discussions? Through 20 in-depth interviews with youths of various racial categories, including the Black diaspora, this paper illuminates the ways in which transnational solidarity was formed around the core value of social justice for marginalised groups, with social media facilitating this process. Concurrently, it reveals that race discussions need to be more nuanced moving forward. Keywords: Black Lives Matter, Diffusion Theory, Chinese Privilege, racism, Singapore, blackness Bachelor of Social Sciences in Sociology 2022-08-03T07:59:28Z 2022-08-03T07:59:28Z 2022 Final Year Project (FYP) Rajasingam, S. (2022). Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160836 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160836 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Sociology Rajasingam, Shantini Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore |
| title | Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore |
| title_full | Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore |
| title_fullStr | Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore |
| title_full_unstemmed | Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore |
| title_short | Black lives matter: perceived (Ir)relevance to understanding race issues in Singapore |
| title_sort | black lives matter perceived ir relevance to understanding race issues in singapore |
| topic | Social sciences::Sociology |
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