Family Matters: Negotiating Intergenerational Mixed Identities among Eurasian Families in Singapore

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2095705
Author(s):  
Brenda S.A. Yeoh ◽  
Kristel Anne F. Acedera ◽  
Zarine L. Rocha ◽  
Esther Rootham
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Generational Changes ◽  
Identity Shifts ◽  
Intra Family

This paper tracks and explores the generational changes in the dynamics of racial identity and identification of Eurasians in Singapore, as reflected in family life. Eurasians are a historic mixed-descent community originating in the mixing of European and Asian cultures in the region since the 16th century. By analysing the embodied enactment and negotiation of mixed identities intergenerationally in the spheres of marriage and language choices, the paper reveals how families express and construct what it means to be Eurasian in the Singaporean context. This study draws on 30 interviews with self-identified Eurasians over two generations, including six paired intra-family interviews, illustrating intergenerational identity shifts. While the boundedness of racial identification appeared to be the norm for earlier generations, a tempering of race as a boundary marker and an openness to changing familial rhythms have served to encourage a lowering of race consciousness among younger Eurasians in Singapore.

scholarly journals Exploring Hybridity and Multiculturalism: Intra and Inter Family Relations in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Pérez Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Zadie Smith ◽  
City Of London ◽  
White Teeth ◽  
Intra Family

La primera novela de Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000), ha sido considerada como ejemplo del multiculturalismo y de la pluralidad que caracterizan hoy en día a la ciudad de Londres. Este artículo estudia los modos en los que los personajes de White Teeth negocian un sentido de pertenencia e identidad y establecen y/o transgreden fronteras espaciales dentro de dicha localización. Este trabajo analiza también la identidad híbrida de los personajes y el carácter maleable que tiene tal espacio multicultural a través del análisis de las relaciones inter- e intra-familiares que se representan en la novela.Abstract:Zadie Smith’s fi rst novel White Teeth (2000) has been analysed as an example of the diverse and multicultural society of the present-day city of London. This essay studies the way in which characters in White Teeth negotiate a sense of belonging and identity and how boundaries are established, and/or violated within that location. It also analyses the characters’ hybrid identities and the malleable aspect of that multicultural social space by focusing on the ways Smith depicts spatial confi gurations of inter and intra family life. 

scholarly journals Inter-generational consequences for growing Caenorhabditis elegans in liquid

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1770) ◽  
pp. 20180125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itamar Lev ◽  
Roberta Bril ◽  
Yunan Liu ◽  
Lucila Inés Ceré ◽  
Oded Rechavi
Keyword(s):  
Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Epigenetic Inheritance ◽  
Evolutionary Medicine ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Generational Effects ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Generational Changes ◽  
In The Wild

In recent years, studies in Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes have shown that different stresses can generate multigenerational changes. Here, we show that worms that grow in liquid media, and also their plate-grown progeny, are different from worms whose ancestors were grown on plates. It has been suggested that C. elegans might encounter liquid environments in nature, although actual observations in the wild are few and far between. By contrast, in the laboratory, growing worms in liquid is commonplace, and often used as an alternative to growing worms on agar plates, to control the composition of the worms' diet, to starve (and synchronize) worms or to grow large populations for biochemical assays. We found that plate-grown descendants of M9 liquid medium-grown worms were longer than control worms, and the heritable effects were already apparent very early in development. We tested for the involvement of different known epigenetic inheritance mechanisms, but could not find a single mutant in which these inter-generational effects are cancelled. While we found that growing in liquid always leads to inter-generational changes in the worms’ size, trans-generational effects were found to be variable, and in some cases, the effects were gone after one to two generations. These results demonstrate that standard cultivation conditions in early life can dramatically change the worms' physiology in adulthood, and can also affect the next generations. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Developing differences: early-life effects and evolutionary medicine’.

“WHITENESS” IN CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jorge Ballinas ◽  
James D. Bachmeier
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
State Level ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Racial Context ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Racial Identity Formation

Abstract Using data from the 2008–2016 American Community Survey, we compare the racial identification responses of the Mexican-origin population residing in California to their counterparts in Texas, the two states with the largest and most established Mexican-origin populations. We draw on existing theory and research in order to derive a theoretical account of state-level historical mechanisms that are likely to lead to varying patterns of racial identification within the two states and a set of propositions predicting the nature of this variation. Results indicate that the Mexican-origin population in Texas is substantially more likely to claim White racial identification than their counterparts in California, even after accounting for factors related to racial identity formation. Further analysis indicates that this result is robust and buffets the notion that the historical development of the racial context in Texas has engendered a present-day context in which “Whiteness” carries a distinctive social value, relative to California’s ethnoracial context, and that this social value is reflected in the ways in which individuals of Mexican origin respond to race questions on U.S. Census surveys.

The Image of the Lithuanian and Ruthenian Legacy of the Jagiellons in 16th-Century Pictorial Catalogues of Polish Monarchs

Ikonotheka ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
Karolina Mroziewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Typical Feature ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Visual Message ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Ancient Lineage ◽  
Historical Representations ◽  
Diverse Cultures ◽  
Artistic Tradition

This article analyses the dynamics that were present in the manner of representing the Lithuanian and Ruthenian legacy of Ladislaus Jagiello and of the first two generations of his descendants in popular 16th-century pictorial catalogues of Polish monarchs. The catalogues actively supported the collective memory and facilitated the integration of Lithuanian and Ruthenian traditions in the Kingdom of Poland. An analysis of the textual and visual message of Maciej of Miechów’s Chronica Polonorum (1519, 1521), of the treatises by Justus Decius appended to it in 1521, the illustrated chronicles of Marcin (1551, 1554, 1564) and Joachim (1597) Bielski, and the visual contents of Tomasz Treter’s Regum Poloniae icones (1591) series has shown that a typical feature of 16th-century works on the first Jagiellons is the non-uniformity of their literary narrations, which contrasts with the relatively stable image of the Jagiellons in the pictorial catalogues. The textual narratives were much quicker to react to the current political, cultural and confessional needs than their visual counterparts, and they accordingly adjusted the literary image of the first Jagiellons. In the dynastic narrations the unfavourable image of the Jagiellons, still present in the first two decades of the 16th century, was replaced by a laudatory narrative concerning the predecessors of Sigismund the Old, which brought into prominence the dynasty’s ancient lineage and its contributions to the Kingdom of Poland. The Eastern roots of the Jagiellons were assimilated into the Polish historical representations by crediting the Lithuanians and Ruthenians with a  Sarmatian genealogy. The narratives of the nobility dating from the second half of the 16th century associated the dynasty’s history with that of the nobility and presented it in the light of the religious, heraldic and socio-ethical interests of Polish noblemen. Ladislaus Jagiello was therefore depicted as a leader of the Polish and Lithuanian nations, operating at the intersection of two diverse cultures, i.e. cultures which were not subject to any evaluative assessment unless they were detrimental to Polish traditions and interests. The last discussed pictorial catalogue, i.e. a  series of depictions of monarchs by Tomasz Treter, is a rare example of reaching back to Jagiello’s Eastern heritage by choosing a Ruthenian painting as a model for his depiction. The use of a Ruthenian representation of the king from all the paintings funded by Jagiello is proof of interest in the Eastern artistic tradition and of its gradual integration into the cultural heritage of the Crown on the eve of the Union of Brest (1596).

scholarly journals The Identity Prism: How Racial Identification Frames Perceptions of Police Contact, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-617
Author(s):  
Andres F. Rengifo ◽  
Lee Ann Slocum
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Police Contact ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This article examines the role of racial identity in the configuration of opinions about the police. We argue that racial identity links social context to individual valuations of law enforcement, moderating the association between specific encounters and general views on police legitimacy and effectiveness. These propositions are assessed using data from a sample of 451 Black and Latino/a youth in New York City. Findings lend partial support for the hypothesis that, for youth with a strong racial/ethnic identity, the detrimental consequences of more “coercive” stops and stops seen as disrespectful are amplified for valuations of legitimacy but not of effectiveness. We discuss these findings in the context of emerging work connecting race, law, and procedural justice at the micro- and macrolevels.

Real Vs Perceived Differences in How Three Intra-Family Generations of Women View Their Roles in Society

1983 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 959-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen F. Slevin ◽  
C. Ray Wingrove
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Matched Pair ◽  
College Females ◽  
Matched Pair Analysis ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Pair Analysis ◽  
Intra Family

A sample drawn from 3 generations of women, viz., 87 college females, their 86 mothers and 26 grandmothers, were administered the Spence and Helmreich Attitude Toward Women Scale. Using intra-family matched-pair analysis, each generation's attitudes were compared to the other two generations' perceptions of them. This analysis suggests two major factors which influence the accuracy of intergenerational perceptions. They are the proximity of generations and the content of the specific attitude under consideration. The data also show a strong tendency for members of each generation to perceive the others as being more conservative than they really are. Implications for those in the counseling field are discussed.

scholarly journals Kumudha; a Traditional Mother in Parasakti and Others in a Plastic Box by Ambai

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2113-2115
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Will Power ◽  
Equal Consideration

The main concern of the paper is to study the significance of women in family life. It explores the importance of women in the short story Parsakti and Others in a Plastic Box which is published in the collection, In a Forest a Deer written by C.S.Lakshmi. The story is discussed from a feminist perspective. Most of Ambai’s works reveal the lives of traditional women their feelings, love, courage, will- power, search for identity, selfrespect, equality and so on. This paper aims to explore the life of a traditional woman who has lost her husband, and is always caring for her daughter along with while carrying her own life. She’s interested in cooking and helping her neighbours, politics, playing veena and singing songs with a lot of easel. She is a frim establisher spirituality of her self-identity and hence wants to write her own biography. This paper defends the ideology of Amabi who affirms that women need equal consideration more from the family than from the society. The paper is significant in a way that it helps the readers to understand empirically the social constructivist and cultural glorification of womanhood in Parasakti and Others in a Plastic Box. The paper further stresses on the difference in understanding the very meaning of the word ‘Freedom’ between the two generations. It delineates how the younger generation calling out for their own freedom unconsciously hinder the freedom of the older generation people without understanding their values, sentiments and attachments. This article views these aspects through the medium of feminism and voices the inner-selves of fictional women out loud

Intimacy, Masculinity, and Relating

It's a Setup ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 193-238
Author(s):  
Timothy Black ◽  
Sky Keyes
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Father Role

The era of neoliberalism has made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers, at the same time that the expectations for them to be involved fathers has increased. The norms and expectations of “father involvement” have changed rapidly within one to two generations, and yet the labor force and state institutions have not supported low-income families in a way to achieve this. In this chapter, the authors examine how fathers have adapted to these changing circumstances. They consider how the casualization of the labor force has structured the casualization of family life; the essential and yet complicated role that kin play; the neotraditional formation of the family and the “new father” role; the efforts to father through generational family violence and to address toxic masculinity; and the contours of fatherhood as men age into second-generation fathers.

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