Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780367875732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 202 str.

Shanshan Lan

Opis

This book explores how knowledge about Africa and blackness is constructed and disseminated in China’s rapidly developing market economy, adopting a comparative perspective by examining similarities and differences between the racialization of Africans in China and in Western countries, and attempting to move beyond black-and-white binaries and

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: becoming Africans, becoming blacks in China

1. South China as the new Promised Land for African migrants














2. Chinese internet representation of African migrants in Guangzhou














3. Issues of credibility and trust in grassroots trade activities between Chinese and Africans














4. Chinese state regulation of undocumented Africans in Guangzhou














5. Status mobility, community networks, and trans-local belongings














6. Between Guangzhou and Lagos: business and family strategies of Chinese/Nigerian couples














7. Negotiating religious freedom in China

Conclusion: China as a key site of transnational racial knowledge production

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O autorze

Shanshan Lan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands