People, place, race, and nation in Xinjiang, China [electronic resource] : territories of identity / David O'Brien, Melissa Shani Brown.
In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region. Significan...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Being and Becoming Chinese: Nation, Ethnicity, Race in Xinjiang
- Chapter 3. Killing the Weeds: The Re-education Camps, Carcinogenic Culture, and Techniques of Modernization
- Chapter 4. Everyday Others: ethnic divides in Xinjiang
- Chapter 5. The Ethnicity of Time: Policing Identity through Practices
- Chapter 6. Ethnic Difference as a Mortal Threat: the Urumchi Riots
- Chapter 7. The Past as Envisioned for the Future: Sinicizing Historicized identities in Xinjiang
- Chapter 8. Eating the Other: Assimilation and Commodification of Ethnic Difference
- Chapter 9. Becoming-Modern: Sinicization, Existential Threats, and Secular Time
- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Futures of the New Frontier.