Due toincidents
<https://supchina.com/2020/04/13/china-africa-relations-face-an-unprecedented-rupture/>last
year in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, where Africans were evicted and
forced to sleep on the street simply because they are African, there is
a growing realization around the world that Chinese racism exists.
Despite the government’s denials, racism against Africans in China is
often blatant. In one widely circulatedclip
<https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/18/african-nations-berate-china-over-covid-19-linked-racism/>,
one can see a white and a black woman both trying to enter a shopping
mall: only the white woman is permitted, and both leave in disgust. Just
as in the West’s past, in China contempt for Africans is also often
mixed up with patronizing exoticization. Chinese comedians wear
blackface onstate TV
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43081218>. In Shenzhen’s
Windows on the World theme park, dark-skinned ethnic minority people
arechoreographed
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141844.2014.939100>to
perform either as primitive Africans, or as primitive themselves
https://chinachannel.org/2021/01/22/chinese-racism/
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