This engaging collection of essays explores Singapore's multiracial, multireligious, and multilingual experience as a powerful testament of unity amid diversity.

While multiracialism embraces pluralism, diversity, and multiple identities, it also requires nurturing shared values, norms, and a cohesive collective identity to manage differences sensitively and effectively.

Providing new insights into Singapore's ongoing nation-building journey, the essays reveal how Singaporeans -- regardless of race, language, or religion -- must continue to develop a unified response to divisive, chauvinistic forces.

Written from an interdisciplinary perspective by a scholar who has studied Singapore's management of race, religion, and language for almost three decades, the book's five thematic sections examine various aspects of race, religion, language, and identity in Singapore.

The essays tackle topical issues from the past two decades that remain as relevant today as when they were first published in various media outlets.

This collection unveils the challenges and nuances of Singapore's identity politics, law, policies, and institutions, showing how Singapore overcame sectarian divides and embrace unity.

Raising the Nation emphasises the founding constitutional principle that every community is treated equally and supported in differentiated ways.

Essential reading for anyone curious about Singapore's raison d'être as an independent, sovereign nation-state, it serves as an indispensable guide to the rich tapestry of identities that define every Singaporean.

About the Author

Eugene KB Tan is associate professor of law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU), where he has been on the faculty since 2001.

At the SMU, Eugene regularly teaches at the law, business, and social sciences schools at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive education levels.

He was concurrently an adjunct faculty at the Singapore University of Technology and Design between 2015 and 2019, and a visiting professor at South Korea's Yonsei University Law School (summer terms of 2013 and 2014).

Eugene's inter-disciplinary research interests include constitutional and administrative law, law and public policy, the government and politics of Singapore, the regulation of ethnic conflict, business ethics and corporate responsibility, and the ethical and policy framework on artificial intelligence.

He has published numerous book chapters, journal articles, and op-eds in his areas of research interest.

His scholarly works and parliamentary speeches have been cited in government reports, media reports, and in Singapore's High Court and apex Court of Appeal.

An active analyst in the local and international media on Singapore politics, government and society, Eugene also regularly contributes op-eds/commentaries to the various Singaporean and international print and online media outlets, including Reuters BreakingViews, Nikkei Asian Review (Japan), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and The Nation (Thailand).

He has appeared in documentaries produced by Channel NewsAsia and Amazon Prime video ('The Giant Beast That is the Global Economy' (2019)).

Between February 2012 and August 2014, Eugene served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore's 12th Parliament. He served as Singapore's Alternative Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights between 2019 and 2024.

His community involvement includes currently serving on the boards of two Institutions of Public Character.

An advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Eugene was educated at the National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Stanford University where he was a Fulbright Fellow.