(De)coupling race and language: The state listening subject and its rearticulation of antiracism as racism in Singapore
| Autor: | Vincent Pak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language 060101 anthropology Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Subject (philosophy) Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Racism Language and Linguistics Race (biology) State (polity) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0601 history and archaeology Active listening Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Language in Society. 52:151-172 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8013 0047-4045 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0047404521000373 |
| Popis: | Harmonious multiracialism is one of Singapore's national values, yet race in Singapore is almost always precariously managed. In 2019, race once again became the centre of public debate when a government-sanctioned advertisement featured a Chinese Singaporean actor ‘brownfacing’ as an Indian Singaporean, incurring public outcry. Local entertainers Preeti and Subhas Nair responded with a rap music video that criticised the advertisement and included the line ‘Chinese people always out here fucking it up’, which drew flak from the government and the Chinese community in Singapore. This article considers the state's response to the antiracist practices of the Nair siblings, and the subsequent labelling of their behaviour as racist. The article also introduces the concept of the state listening subject and describes its role in the semiotic process of rearticulation to elucidate how the Singaporean state selectively (de)couples race and language to maintain the national racial order. (Raciolinguistic ideology, multiracialism, rearticulation, state listening subject, race, Singapore, antiracism)* |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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