Afro-Asian Intimacies: Cross-Pollination and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness in Chinese Culture
Crystal Kwok
Abstract:America’s racial history is largely siloed and compartmentalized, separating minority group experiences as if they were neat rows of isolated, discernable categories. Resisting binary narratives, this article reframes history by focusing on the largely unknown lives of the Chinese immigrants and African American communities in the segregated south. An examination of the intimate histories between the two marginalized groups illuminates how structures of the central white power enforced racial projects that pit… Show more
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