Patriarchal racism: the convergence of anti-blackness and gender tension on Chinese social media
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: By analyzing Douyin users' mediated interactions with interracial couples in everyday contexts, this paper addresses the convergence of anti-blackness and domestic gender tension on Chinese social media.It introduces the perspective of 'multiple triangulations' to examine discussions of four types of interracial relationships on Douyin: black women and Chinese men, black men and Chinese women, white women and Chinese men, and white men and Chinese women.This approach complicates explanations of why Chinese social media users have been rejecting blackness in a potentially mixed-race China in relation to whiteness and Chineseness.It also illuminates how they have encoded gender tension in marriages in China into anti-black discourses.Additionally, this research highlights the race-blind digital infrastructure and the dynamic connotations of anti-black racism in contemporary China.
Author: Zhiqiu Benson Zhou
Institution: New York University Shanghai
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4361225066