[Video] Desiring Distinctions: Totalizing Images and Coercions of Community in Multiracial, Multilingual Singapore

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Written By NYSEAN

Recorded on January 30, 2025

Joshua Babcock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, discusses the raciolinguistic distinctiveness and national identity in Singapore. More specifically, he shows how racial community gets performed, policed, and blocked through everyday communicative activity amid three-dimensional fictions of multiracial-multilingualism as national identity.

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