Jay Ke-Schutte’s new book published by University of California Press

Postdoctoral fellow in the CSU Departments of Communication Studies and Anthropology Dr. Jay Ke-Schutte’s book Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations is being published in February 2023. Angloscene is available for preorder now.

About the book:Front cover of book "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" featuring Chinese script and newspaper print overlaid on a blurry, dark-skinned boy wearing a red hat

Angloscene examines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing’s aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university students are mediated through complex intersectional relationships with whiteness, the English language, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: How does English become more than a language—and whiteness more than a race? Engaging in this inquiry, Ke-Schutte explores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the discursive contours of a changing transnational political order—one that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations.

Preorder your copy:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389816/angloscene

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.