Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging Lan Shanshan
Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging Lan Shanshan When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to…
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Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging Lan Shanshan
When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. Indeed, grassroots perspectives of China/Africa trade relations are foregrounded through the examination of daily interactions between Africans and rural-to-urban Chinese migrants in various informal trade spaces in Guangzhou. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, within China, where race is such a politically sensitive topic?Based on multi-sited ethnographic research in China and Nigeria, Mapping the New African Diaspora in China explores a new wave of African migration to South China in the context of the expansion of Sino/African trade relations and the global circulation of racial knowledge.
These Afro-Chinese encounters have the potential to not only help reveal