“In a globalised world, dialogue across differences is more important than ever, and we have so much to learn from one another.” Opinion | emilyjodell
“We Algerians have a serious racism problem,” a fierce young Algerian woman said into the microphone, as an older Algerian man confronted her with rage from the foot of the stage. She pointed to the suppression of Berber language and discrimination against migrants from Mali, while he ranted that there’s no racism in Arab culture. “Not true, and plus Algerians aren’t Arab,” she retorted, raising the stakes of the exchange.
Over 300 of our students showed up on a Saturday night to hear Dr Garrett speak with another history-making hero from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: Courtland Cox, who helped organise the historic 1963 March on Washington, registered thousands of African Americans to vote in the south around the time of the Voting Rights Act, and served as a representative to the War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
In fact, when poet Langston Hughes visited Shanghai in 1934, he found the International Settlement separated from the Chinese sections of Shanghai by barbed wire and American race segregation laws. Laugh — and roar, China! Time to spit fire!Swallow up the foreign planes in your sky!Decades later, Chairman Mao would declare in 1968: “On behalf of the Chinese people, I hereby express resolute support for the just struggle of the Black people in the United States.
To study race, of course, is to study the history of the world. In my course on Africa, my students and I explore China’s 15th century encounters with East Africa and the modern-day Chinese diaspora in South Africa. Black culture is popular with educated Chinese youth – I have students who named themselves LeBron and Jay-Z, and when I was invited by the Communist Youth League to judge our student singing competition, several students chose to sing hip hop and rap songs.
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