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Patriarchal racism: the convergence of anti-blackness and gender tension on Chinese social media.

Authors :
Zhou, Zhiqiu Benson
Source :
Information, Communication & Society; 2024, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p223-239, 17p
Publication Year :
2024

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1369118X
Volume :
27
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Information, Communication & Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
175302676
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2193252