RCCS is co-sponsoring this talk which is hosted by the Department of Geography.
Abstract:
Since the turn of the millennium, the return of the People’s Republic of China to the African continent has been framed as a neocolonial scramble or revival of south-south cooperation. An ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg, Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century recasts these relations of power as racial capitalism in a global moment of Chinese ascendance. In this talk, Huang provides an overview of racial capitalism’s travels across South Africa and North America and three illustrations of Chinese racial accumulation: the exploitation of Black labor (heigong), Chinese proprietary relations, and channels for the circulation of surplus.
Bio:
Mingwei Huang is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, migration, colonialism, and capitalism and assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College.