Guangzhi Huang, PhD

My research interest lies in the intersection of race and urban growth in contemporary China. Specifically, I investigate the disbanding of African communities in Guangzhou and its connection to China’s mode of urban development, which shows heavy influence by the West and whiteness. 

• Haugen, Heidi, & Guangzhi Huang, “Becoming Sanfei: The Irregularization of Foreign Migrants in China”, Critical Handbook on Irregular Migration, Edward Elgar (forthcoming in 2023)
• Huang, Guangzhi, “Foreigner in China: Economic Transition and the Chinese State’s Vision of Immigration and Race”, Made in China, no. 2, 2021.
• Huang, Guangzhi, “Conflating Blackness and Rurality: Urban Politics and Social Control of Africans in Guangzhou, China”, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, vol. 19, no. 2, 2020, pp. 148-168
• Huang, Guangzhi, “Cleaning up Guangzhou’s African enclave: A historical Perspective.” Asia Dialogue, Aug 28, 2019. https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/08/28/cleaning-up-guangzhous-african-enclave-a-historical-perspective/
• Huang, Guangzhi, “Policing the Blacks in Guangzhou: How Public Security Constructs Africans as Sanfei.” Modern China, vol 45, no. 2, 2019, pp. 171-200.
• Huang, Guangzhi, “Sanfei Blacks – How the Chinese State Constructs Africans as Dangerous Illegals.” The Long Struggle: Discourses on Human and Civil Rights in African and the Africa Diaspora. (Austin, Tx: Pan-African University Press, 2017). 

• Devermont, Judd, & Travis Adkins, “Race and Diplomacy”, Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Nov 10, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9NXyoXYNl8&t=360s
• Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany, & Dave Lawler. "Complaints of racism mar China's global image", Axios, Apr 15, 2020.  https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-racism-discrimination-africa-china-326de397-a3f9-4993-9c8b-1dd303b593db.html  
• Su, Alice.  "‘No blacks’: Evicted, harassed and targeted in China for their race amid coronavirus", Los Angeles Times, Apr 16, 2020.  https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-16/china-coronavirus-black-african-evictions

• “Anti-Black Racism in China: Temporal and Geographical Specificities and Connections”, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MARAAS) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Oct 2022
• “Conflating Blackness and Rurality: Urban Politics and Social Control of Africans in Guangzhou”, New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Brockport, NY, Oct 2021
• “Global Systemic Racism Conference and Book Project at (Virtual) Berkeley Law”, University of California, Berkeley, Sep 2021
• “Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Virtual Conference”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS), Singapore, July 2021
• Panelist in “Interactions between African Migrant Workers and Law Enforcement in China”, The Society for Chinese Law and Black Voices on Greater China at Columbia Law School, Nov 18, 2020
• “A Global City without Blacks: How Guangzhou Evicted African Traders in its Urban Development”, World History Association (WHA) Annual Conference, 2019 Puerto Rico, San Juan, Jun 2019
• “Astute Planners: How Urban Villagers in Guangzhou Converted Their Neighborhood into an African Market”, International Planning History Society (IPHS) Annual Conference, 2018. Yokohama, Japan, Jul 2018