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Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices.

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aliases@valluvan_conviviality_2016, loc. 73

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Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices.

Evidence

This comment eloquently captures the disjointedness involved when anchoring the discursive (prejudices on TV which are reinforced by some fellow Turks) in the mate­ riality of local life (‘they know people who are not like the prejudices’). The warm familiarity with those who are different which is cultivated in the course of transient multi-ethnic encounters (go off for lunch, go to the cafe) serves to complicate the discursively established prejudices and degrading characterizations of locally rele­ vant other figures (e.g., working-class black). In short, it is this duality which is … Being embedded in quotidian mul­ ticultural routines, whilst, simultaneously, being exposed to the conflict paradigms which often situate discussions around race and pluralism—both privately through family and other intimate contacts amongst whom ideas circulate and at the level of general discursive engagement (e.g., news media and other racialized popularculture images). — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 73

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Names the duality at the heart of ‘conviviality’ studies: lived routine familiarity with difference set against conflict-laden discourse.
  • corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 73
  • XREF: connects to: Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 857; Media producers complicate storylines to project racial sensitivity

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