Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism South Africa In The Chinese Century 1st Edition Mingwei Huang by Mingwei Huang 9781478031031, 9781478026792, 9781478059998, 1478026790, 1478031034, 1478059990, B0DPV63WTZ instant download after payment.

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.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theorizing in the Chinese Century

PART I. LAYERED HISTORIES

1 Palimpsest City

2 Sojourner Colonialism

3 Afro-Asian Adjacencies

4 Afterlives of Gold

PART II. RACIAL FORMATIONS

5 Criminal Obsessions and Racial Fictions

6 The Erotic Life of Chinese Racism

PART III. FRICTIONS AND FUTURES

7 Follow the Surplus

Epilogue: Afro-Asian Futures

Notes

References

Index

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