Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism - Mingwei Huang

Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism

South Africa in the Chinese Century

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2679-2 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
An ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces everyday relations of power and difference between ordinary Chinese migrant entrepreneurs, southern African workers, and South African communities at a Chinese wholesale mall along Johannesburg’s old gold mining belt.
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism, Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Through fieldwork in one of the “China malls” that has emerged along Johannesburg’s former mining belt, Huang identifies everyday relations of power and difference between Chinese entrepreneurs and African migrant workers in these wholesale shops. These relations, Huang contends, replicate and perpetuate global structures of white supremacy, anti-Blackness, capitalism, and colonialism, even when whiteness is not present. Huang argues that this dynamic reflects the sedimented legacies and continued operation of white supremacy and colonialism, which have been transformed in the shift of capitalism’s center of gravity toward China and the Global South. These new forms of racial capitalism and empire layer onto and extend histories of exploitation and racialization in South Africa. Taking a palimpsestic approach, Huang offers tools for understanding this shift and decentering contemporary Western conceptions of race, empire, and racial capitalism in the Chinese Century.

Mingwei Huang is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction: Theorizing in the Chinese Century  1
Part I. Layered Histories
1. Palimpsest City  35
2. Sojourner Colonialism  62
3. Afro-Asian Adjacencies  92
4. Afterlives of Gold  123
Part II. Racial Formations
5. Criminal Obsessions and Racial Fictions  157
6. The Erotic Life of Chinese Racism  189
Part III. Frictions and Futures
7. Follow the Surplus  219
Epilogue: Afro-Asian Futures  243
Notes  251
References  261
Index  289

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Zusatzinfo 31 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-2679-0 / 1478026790
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-2679-2 / 9781478026792
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