Ethnic identity and racial contestation in cyberspace: Deconstructing the Chineseness of Lou Jing

Frazier, Robeson Taj; Lin, Zhang

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“…Studies have found that negative perceptions of African Americans among AAAUS are often based on negative stereotypes circulated throughout various media outlets in the United States depicting them as “welfare dependent,” “aggressive,” and “deviant” (Lee and Ulmer 2000; Johnson 2007; Park et al 2006). Consequently, African Americans have been the target of several discriminatory and racially driven incidents based on these negative stereotypes held by Chinese and Korean people (Cheng 2011; Frazier and Zhang 2014; Johnson 2007; Sautman 1994).…”

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Strength in Numbers: Perceptions of Political Commonality with African Americans among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States

Nicholson

Carter

Restar

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Asians are now the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States. Nearly 18 million Asians and Asian Americans currently reside in the country. Approximately 44 million African Americans also live in the United States. To improve their limited social, economic, and political clout, Asians and Asian Americans in the United States (AAAUS) could benefit from the formation of mutually beneficial political alliances with African Americans, another historically marginalized racial group. However, complicated relational dynamics between African Americans and AAAUS may drastically reduce the chances of political unity. Using the 2008 National Asian American Survey, the authors examine the effects of three factors—group consciousness, linked fate, and experiences of discrimination—on perceptions of political commonality with African Americans among AAAUS. The findings show that group consciousness and linked fate positively and strongly increase the odds of perceptions of political commonality with African Americans; however, experiences of discrimination do not. The results suggest that the cultivation of mutually beneficial political alliances between African Americans and AAAUS would first require AAAUS to develop a heightened sense of group consciousness and linked fate. The potential impact of these factors on future political alliances between both groups are discussed, as are the limitations of this study.

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Strength in Numbers: Perceptions of Political Commonality with African Americans among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States

Nicholson

Carter

Restar

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…While it is not the aim of this article to offer an analysis of this historical construction, it is important to note that the more recent literature engaging with the notions of "race" and "racism" in Africa-China relations (see Sautman andYan 2007, 2009;Shen 2009;Cheng 2011;Bodomo 2012;Monson and Rupp 2013;Frazier and Zhang 2014;Galtung and Stenslie 2014;Lan 2014Lan , 2015Lan , 2016Lan , 2017Pfafman, Carpenter, and Tang 2015;Moyo 2016;Li 2017;Huynh and Park 2019) often sets out the following historical stages as a basis for their argumentation: (1) China's pre-modern encounters with blacknesses; (2) the arrival of the notion of "race" and its sinification; (3) the racial thinking turn under internationalism; and (4) post-socialist configurations of racial thinking. Below, I briefly review these stages.…”

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“Race” and “racism” in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections

Bautista¹

2020

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

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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.

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“…The internet has contributed particularly to the diversification of nationalistic consciousness and become an important channel 'by which the most globalised segment of the Chinese population, namely, educated urban youths, expresses the multifaceted discourse' of nationalism (Zhao, 2007: 193-197). The extreme right end of nationalistic internet users have been drawn to cyber-racism (Chang, 2011;Frazier and Zhang, 2014) and Han supremacism (Leibold, 2010;. The former reinforces globally imagined racial hierarchies and the latter applies a similar binary of progress and backwardness to the relationship between the Han majority and ethnic minorities within China.…”

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Right-Wing Populist Discourse on Chinese Social Media: Identity, Otherness, and Global Imaginaries

Zhang

2019

SSRN Journal

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The last few years have seen the emergence of a right-wing populist discourse on Chinese social media that combines the claims, vocabulary, and style of right-wing populisms in Europe and North America with previous forms of nationalism and racism in Chinese cyberspace. In other words, it provokes a similar hostility towards immigrants, Muslims, feminism, the so-called 'liberal elites', and progressive values in general. This article examines how, in debating global political events such as the European refugee crisis and the American presidential election, well-educated and well-informed Chinese internet users appropriate the rhetoric of 'Western-style' rightwing populism to paradoxically criticise Western hegemony and discursively construct China's ethno-racial and political identities. Through qualitative analysis of 1,038 postings retrieved from a popular social media website, this research shows that by criticising Western 'liberal elites', the discourse constructs China's ethno-racial identity against the 'inferior' non-Western other, exemplified by non-white immigrants and Muslims, with racial nationalism on one hand; and formulates China's political identity against the 'declining' Western other with realist authoritarianism on the other. We conclude by conceptualising the discourse as embodying the logics of anti-Western Eurocentrism and anti-hegemonic hegemonies. This article 1) provides critical insights into the changing ways in which self/other relations are imagined in Chinese popular geopolitical discourse; 2) sheds light on the global circulation of extremist discourses facilitated by the internet; and 3) contributes to the ongoing debate on populism and the 'crisis' of the liberal world order.

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Ethnic identity and racial contestation in cyberspace: Deconstructing the Chineseness of Lou Jing

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Strength in Numbers: Perceptions of Political Commonality with African Americans among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States

Strength in Numbers: Perceptions of Political Commonality with African Americans among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States

“Race” and “racism” in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections

Right-Wing Populist Discourse on Chinese Social Media: Identity, Otherness, and Global Imaginaries

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