Richarde had not been in China for more than a few hours when a man turned to him and asked:

“Why are you black? Don’t you take a bath?”… Continue reading Don’t You Bathe?

Zander Rounds  This might seem a strange question coming from someone writing about Africans students in China, but in truth it has lingered uneasily in the back of my mind since I began my research six months ago.* The problem: when writing about ‘Africans’ the temptation is to uncritically group individuals from the 54 African countries together. As Castillo, a scholar who studies Africans in … Continue reading Is it Okay to Write About Africans in China?