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CONTENTS

List of Contributors .................................................................. vii

Introduction .............................................................................. 1

No Longer “Other”: The Emergence of the Eurasian

Community in Singapore .................................................... 5
Alexius A. Pereira

Names as Sites of Identity Construction, Negotiation, and Re-

sistance: Signifying Orang Asli in Postcolonial Malaysia .... 33
Alice M. Nah

Growing Up Malay in Singapore ............................................ 61

Joseph Stimpfl

The Chinese in Contemporary Malaysia ................................ 95

Tong Chee Kiong

The Political and Economic Marginalization of Tamils in

Malaysia ................................................................................ 121
Lian Kwen Fee

Constructing and Contesting “Singaporean Hinduism” ........ 145

Vineeta Sinha

Chinese and Malays in Singapore: Incomes, Education

and Employment, 1954–1995 .............................................. 169
Lee Kiat Jin

Post-Independence Educational Change, Identity and

Huaxiaosheng Intellectuals in Singapore: A Case Study of
Chinese Language Teachers ................................................ 191
Sai Siew Yee
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Race and Racialization in Malaysia and Singapore .............. 219

Lian Kwen Fee

Index .......................................................................................... 235

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