"Race" and "racism" in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Race" and "racism" in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)
- Main Title:
- "Race" and "racism" in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections
- Authors:
- castillo, Roberto
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Over the last five years, as Africa-China relations have moved beyond the honeymoon period and into a more complex stage, a number of incidents have exploded into global controversies about "race, " "racism" and racial hierarchies. Given this context, research on "race" and "racism" in Africa-China relations has been scarce and fraught with methodological issues and challenges. In this article, I first provide a critical analysis of the ways in which the existing body of Africa-China relations knowledge engages with the analytical categories of "race" and "racism." After that, following Monson and Lan, who have both argued for the need of a "triangulation" to better understand "racialisation processes" in the relationship, I introduce the notion of "multiple triangulations" to both analyse these processes and to distance the discussion from Euro-American binaries and dichotomies around "race" and "racism." This is followed by a brief discussion on one of the most recent controversies relating to "race" and "racism" in Afro-Chinese mediascapes. Towards the end of the article, I reflect on the most common methodological issues and challenges in the research on Afro-Chinese encounters. Finally, I discuss the need to develop a global (post-imperial) vocabulary of "race" and "racism, " and indicate what may be the early steps towards doing so.
- Is Part Of:
- Inter-Asia cultural studies. Volume 21:Issue 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Inter-Asia cultural studies
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Issue 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0021-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 310
- Page End:
- 336
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-02
- Subjects:
- Race -- racism -- Africa -- China -- research -- methodologies
Culture -- Periodicals
Asia -- Civilization -- Periodicals
Asia -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals
Culture -- Périodiques
Asie -- Civilisation -- Périodiques
Asie -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Périodiques
303.4095 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/riac20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/14649373.2020.1796343 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1464-9373
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- Legaldeposit
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