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Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy

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Availability:In StockContributor:Leslie BowSeries:Anima: Critical Race Studies OtherwisePublish date:2022-03-04Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478017851ISBN-10:1478017856UPC:9781478017851Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCXD1F8JDB
In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as "racist love," 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 décor 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478017851ISBN-10:1478017856UPC:9781478017851Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCXD1F8JDB
Leslie Bow is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South and Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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