1. MEDIA, SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AND RACIALIZED HABITUS: VOICES FROM CHINESE CANADIAN YOUTH.
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DAN CUI and WORRELL, FRANK
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VIOLENCE ,CRIMES against youth ,YOUTH ,SENSORY perception ,RACISM - Abstract
This study examines how Chinese Canadian youth perceive media representation of Chinese people and how that perception affects their identity construction. Drawing on Bourdieu and interview data with thirty-six first- and second-generation Chinese Canadian youth in Alberta, we discuss three themes of symbolic violence that Chinese youth experience in the media field. We argue that media-initiated symbolic violence not only reproduces and reinforces racism institutionally and systemically but also contributes to the evolvement of a racialized habitus among Chinese Canadian youth. It affects Chinese Canadian youth's construction of a positive Chinese identity, and at the same time their perceptions as "real" Canadians in the country that they view as home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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