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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-101478031034

ISBN-139781478031031

eBay Product ID (ePID)10065127393

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Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameReconfiguring Racial Capitalism : South Africa in the Chinese Century

SubjectGlobalization, Africa / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorMingwei Huang

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2024-005740

Dewey Edition23

Reviews Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism is a tour de force in terms of its original and nuanced theoretical interventions into scholarship on racial capitalism. Its originality lies in its move beyond reliance on the binaries of the West and the rest, first world/third world, or a generic Global South. Instead, Mingwei Huang challenges the widespread, reductive debate about whether China is merely replicating Western imperialism. She offers an incredibly insightful analysis of how racial capitalism works in a south-south relationship where the superiority of Euro-American whiteness is not at the center but nonetheless lingers. This is one of the most important books on racial capitalism I've read in a long time., " Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism is a tour de force in terms of its original and nuanced theoretical interventions into scholarship on racial capitalism. Its originality lies in its move beyond reliance on the binaries of the West and the rest, first world/third world, or a generic Global South. Instead, Mingwei Huang challenges the widespread, reductive debate about whether China is merely replicating Western imperialism. She offers an incredibly insightful analysis of how racial capitalism works in a south-south relationship where the superiority of Euro-American whiteness is not at the center but nonetheless lingers. This is one of the most important books on racial capitalism I've read in a long time."-- Lisa Rofel, author of , Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture "Mingwei Huang significantly challenges the representation of China's capitalist ventures as distinct and unbridled. She shows that we cannot understand Chinese capitalism without recognizing its deep imbrication in the global racial hierarchy that was established through European expansion and the emergence of white supremacy over the past five centuries. A timely, smart, innovative, and important book."-- Jemima Pierre, author of , The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race "The author's theoretical perspective is both innovative and profound. . . . Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism offers a novel perspective for comprehending global capitalism and racial inequality, particularly providing significant insights into the economic interactions between China and Africa, with a focus on South Africa."-- Yuan Huang , African Studies Quarterly "Huang's Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism offers a timely critique of how race, capitalism, and power continue to shape global dynamics, particularly in the context of Sino-African relations. . . . The book serves as a critical reminder that addressing systemic inequalities requires not just economic reforms but also a profound transformation in how global partnerships are conceived and enacted. Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism is an essential resource for understanding these complexities in the current era."-- Mega Fatimah, Meiliani & Rahma Febrianti , African Identities, Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism is a tour de force in terms of its original and nuanced theoretical interventions into scholarship on racial capitalism. Its originality lies in its move beyond reliance on the binaries of the West and the rest, first world/third world, or a generic global South. Instead, Mingwei Huang challenges the widespread reductive debate about whether China is merely replicating Western imperialism. She offers an incredibly insightful analysis of how racial capitalism works in a south-south relationship where the superiority of EuroAmerican whiteness is not at the center but nonetheless lingers. This is one of the most important books on racial capitalism I've read in a long time., Huang's Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism offers a timely critique of how race, capitalism, and power continue to shape global dynamics, particularly in the context of Sino-African relations. . . . The book serves as a critical reminder that addressing systemic inequalities requires not just economic reforms but also a profound transformation in how global partnerships are conceived and enacted. Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism is an essential resource for understanding these complexities in the current era., The author's theoretical perspective is both innovative and profound. . . . Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism offers a novel perspective for comprehending global capitalism and racial inequality, particularly providing significant insights into the economic interactions between China and Africa, with a focus on South Africa., Mingwei Huang significantly challenges the representation of China's capitalist ventures as distinct and unbridled. She shows that we cannot understand Chinese capitalism without recognizing its deep imbrication in the global racial hierarchy that was established through European expansion and the emergence of white supremacy over the past five centuries. A timely, smart, innovative, and important book.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.8951068

Table Of ContentPreface 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

SynopsisAn 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.

LC Classification NumberDT1768.C55H83 2024