Bow Leslie Bow

Racist Love (eBook, PDF)

Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy

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Produktbeschreibung

In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as "e;racist love,"e; she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children's books, home decor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022466
• Artikelnr.: 66282753

Autorenporträt

Leslie Bow

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Racist Love  1 1. Racial Transitional Objects: Anthropomorphic Animals and Other Asian Americans  25 2. Racist Cute: Caricature, Kawaii Style, and the Asian Thing  69 3. Asian
Female
Robot
Slave: Techo-Orientalism after #MeToo  108 4. On the Asian Fetish and The Fantasy of Equality  153 Conclusion. Racist Hate, Racial Profiling, Pokémon at Auschwitz  191 Acknowledgments  201 Notes  205 References 237 Index  253