Chinese Espresso : Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy by Grazia Ting Deng (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691245789
ISBN-139780691245782
eBay Product ID (ePID)10063307308
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameChinese Espresso : Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy
SubjectGeneral, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
AuthorGrazia Ting Deng
Subject AreaHouse & Home, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width7.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2024-442145
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240521
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.7089951045
SynopsisWhy and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008 Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product--so 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.
LC Classification NumberTX910.I8D4 2024
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