ChinaMustexplain
Global Tweets, Covid-19, and Anti-Black Racism in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9316124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Ouassini (0000-0002-9229-0126, Delaware State University, corresponding author), Mostafa Amini (0000-0002-7100-2885, Harvard Medical School), Nabil Ouassini (0000-0002-7561-6497, Prairie View A&M University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0034644621992687 |
| PMID | 35291318 |
| OpenAlex | W3134160549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 19 |
One of the consequences of the emergence of COVID-19 has been the glaring racial and ethnic disparities that have defined the course of the spread of the virus. As a recent migrant-minority community in China, the Black community's experience has been defined by vulgar racism, exploitation, and stigmatization. In the context of COVID-19, the Black community in China was again a target of multiple racial projects which sought to label their bodies as diseased and physical presence as a threat to the viability and safety of the Han majority. The global response was to mobilize online to expose how the Chinese government is systematically facilitating discriminatory policies against Black migrants in China. In the present paper, we explore how Twitter was utilized to mobilize awareness about anti-Black racism in China. We first present a brief history of African migration to China and then discuss the Han racial ideologies that are inspiring the anti-Black racism. We then use latent Dirichlet allocation as a topic modeling algorithm to extract underlying themes to discuss how anti-Black racism in the COVID-19 context was framed and subsequently challenged by the global community. Finally, we conclude with a brief discussion on COVID-19 and the future of the Black community in China
China · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Global Influence and Migration · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |