Making Chinese-Canadian Masculinities in Vancouver's Physical Education Curriculum

Autor/inn/en	Millington, Brad; Vertinsky, Patricia; Boyle, Ellexis; Wilson, Brian
Titel	Making Chinese-Canadian Masculinities in Vancouver's Physical Education Curriculum
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 13 (2008) 2, S.195-214 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
Schlagwörter	Physical Education; Cultural Pluralism; Foreign Countries; Gender Discrimination; Immigrants; Males; Masculinity; Chinese; High Schools; Secondary Schools; Mass Media Effects; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Kulturpluralismus; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Männlichkeit; China; Chinesen; High school; Oberschule; Sekundarschule; Kanada
Abstract	Our paper illustrates how males of Chinese descent in British Columbia (BC) have historically been victims of overt and subtle forms of discrimination, and describes how racism is and was integrally linked to notions of class, gender and the body. Highlighted in our historical overview are issues around race and masculinity for Chinese males as they existed (and still exist) in the BC educational system, especially in sport-related and physical education (PE) contexts. We examine how some of these issues continue to impact Vancouver's schools through Millington's (2006) study of masculinities in secondary PE which showed how that environment, while offering the potential for various masculinities to flourish, tended to promote hegemonic gender identities as "normal". In particular, we show how Chinese-Canadian boys, both Canadian born as well as more recent immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, continue to be subject to subtle racist understandings of Chinese masculinities--understandings that are often camouflaged by the dominant national rhetoric of multiculturalism. We conclude the paper by arguing that if indeed schools' curricula exacerbate problematic understandings of race and masculinity that underlie discriminatory behaviours and attitudes, then physical educators need the tools to develop strategies for change. (Contains 14 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10