In sight and in order : racial legibility, racializing surveillance, and Singapore's Malay problem, 1980-1990 by Muhammad Hydar Saharudin

“…Malay marginality has thus been a major outcome of such categorical simplifications and foreclosures. This thesis makes its case by charting the trajectories of the “Malay problem” and Sinicization, and how both would combine, from the 1980s onwards, to constitute Singapore’s racial order. …”
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