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China's Gold Rush Migrants

The LRB Podcast

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Polite Racism Is More Polite Today Than It Was in the Nineteenth Century

In all three of these places, the nida writes botk her book, the anxiety or or hostility towards chinese workers was often disguised as concern for victims of slavery. And we seeing that again with anti migration policies that have dressed up as anti trafficking nows. I think people today are far better at dressing it up as sympathy and a ampathy for the workers. So i think polite racism is probably more polite to day than it was in the nineteenth century.

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