ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the media flows behind representations of Africans in Guangzhou and in China. It focuses on a number of controversial incidents that have ignited viral transnational debates over ‘race’ and ‘racism’ in Afro-Chinese engagements. Usually, discussions around these issues are quickly colonised by the ‘hegemonic power’ (Dirlik, 1993) of Euro-American cultural imperialism and its binary discourse of ‘race’ and ‘racism’. The chapter explores how recent incidents triangulate new and old racist rhetoric, as well as gendered stereotypes, into emerging processes of racialisation among Chinese and Africans in China. The chapter aims to advance our understanding of the forms of racialisation and new racisms that may be emerging from interactions within transnational urban spaces in China.
