Cartography of Afro-Asian relations in America: co-racialization and nanohealing.

This article examines the co-racialization processes between Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Black American communities in the United States, focusing on how these groups relationally construct each other within socio-spatial and temporal contexts. Drawing on interviews with 72 participants, the study explores themes such as segregated neighborhoods and schools, mediated racial perceptions shaped by popular culture, and everyday experiences of "hydraulic racism" (institutionalized racism) and "nanoracism" (interpersonal, subtle racism). The article introduces "nanohealing" as a communicative practice aimed at fostering sustained, face-to-face relationality to counteract the alienation and tensions perpetuated by systemic and everyday racism. It highlights the importance of localized, intentional interactions to build solidarity and resist divisive racial narratives between these two historically marginalized groups.