Chinese Espresso (eBook)

Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

Grazia Ting Deng (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25561-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Why and how local coffee bars in Italythose distinctively Italian social and cultural spaceshave been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural productso much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO's official list of intangible heritages of humanity. The coffee bar is a cornerstone of Italian urban life, with city residents sipping espresso at more than 100,000 of these local businesses throughout the country. And yet, despite its nationalist bona fides, espresso in Italy is increasingly prepared by Chinese baristas in Chinese-managed coffee bars. In this book, Grazia Ting Deng explores the paradox of ';Chinese espresso'the fact that this most distinctive Italian social and cultural tradition is being preserved by Chinese immigrants and their racially diverse clientele.Deng investigates the conditions, mechanisms, and implications of the rapid spread of Chinese-owned coffee bars in Italy since the Great Recession of 2008. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic research in Bologna, Deng describes an immigrant group that relies on reciprocal and flexible family labor to make coffee, deploying local knowledge gleaned from longtime residents who have come, sometimes resentfully, to regard this arrangement as a new normal. The existence of Chinese espresso represents new features of postmodern and postcolonial urban life in a pluralistic society where immigrants assume traditional roles even as they are regarded as racial others. The story of Chinese baristas and their patrons, Deng argues, transcends the dominant Eurocentric narrative of immigrant-host relations, complicating our understanding of cultural dynamics and racial formation within the shifting demographic realities of the Global North.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Achen • Ailin • Aiyue • albanian • American Anthropologist • annual review • anthropologist • Anthropology • Auntie Xiaowei • bangladeshi • bar tradizionale • Beibei • Bologna • Cappuccino • Central Italy • Chinatown • Chinese • Chinese baristas • Chinese Christian • Chinese Diaspora • Chinese Evangelical Christian Church • Chinese migration • Christian • Christmas • Church • circoli • Coffee • coffee bars • coffee culture • Covid • critique • Cultural Anthropology • cultural encounters • Current Anthropology • Eastern Europe • Enbao • Enhua • ENSI • Ethnic Relations • ethnography • Europe • European Culture • everyday encounters • FIPE • Food culture • Giulia • Global China • global north • Intercultural Studies • International migration • Italia • Italian culture • Italian middle-class • Italy • Jiayi • Korean • Lanlan • Linli • Mandarin • Mandarin Chinese • maoist • Marco • Massimo • Massimo Bressan • Meili • Migrants • Migration • moroccans • Muslim • North Africa • Oriental • Overseas Chinese • Pietro • Poetics • Politics • Race • Racialization • Racial Relations • racial studies • Raffel • Romanians • Routledge • Rowman Littlefield • Sicilian • Sociality • Sociology • Southern Italians • southern Italy • Southern Zhejiang • Stefano • Studies • Uncle Gumin • Urban Culture • Urban space • Venetian • wechat • World War • Xiaochun • Zhejiang
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25561-X / 069125561X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25561-3 / 9780691255613