@article{1451406,
      recid = {1451406},
      author = {O'Brien, David and Brown, Melissa Shani,},
      title = {People, place, race, and nation in Xinjiang, China :  territories of identity /},
      pages = {1 online resource (361 pages)},
      note = {Description based upon print version of record.},
      abstract = {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. Significant international attention has condemned  the CCPs use of forced internment in re-education camps, as  well as its campaign of cultural assimilation. In this  wider context, this book focuses upon the ways in which  ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of  everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one  shops, even what time ones clocks are set to (Xinjiang  being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic  groups live by different time-zones). Alongside chapters  focusing upon the coercive re-education campaign, and the  devastating Urumchi Riots in 2009, this book also unpacks  how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire  and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness,  how cultural assimilation (Sinicisation) is being justified  through the rhetoric of modernisation, how Islamic sites  and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified  for tourist consumption. We also explore Uyghur and Han  perspectives, including of each other, giving insight into  the diversity of opinions within both groups. Based on many  years of living and working in China, and fieldwork and  interviews specifically in Xinjiang, this book will be  valuable to a variety of readers interested in the region  and Uyghur and Han identity, ethnic/national identities in  contemporary China, and racisms in non-western contexts.  David OBrien is a Research Associate with the Faculty of  East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany. His  research focusses on ethnic identity in contemporary China  and the interplay between ethnicity and politics. Melissa  Shani Brown is affiliated with the Faculty of East Asian  Studies, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany. Her research  interests include the conceptual uses of silence in  critical theory and cultural texts, and intersectionality.  .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451406},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3776-7},
}