Racist love : Asian abstraction and the pleasures of fantasy

Author/Creator:

Bow, Leslie, 1962- author

Publication/Creation:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Racist love : Asian abstraction and the pleasures of fantasy / Leslie Bow

Series Titles:

Anima: critical race studies otherwise
ANIMA (Duke University Press)

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Asian Americans--Public opinion
Asian Americans--Social conditions
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity
Racism--United States
Racism
United States--Race relations

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Racist Love -- Racial Transitional Objects: Anthropomorphic Animals and other Asian Americans -- Racist Cute: Caricature, Kawaii-style, and the Asian Thing -- AsianFemaleRobotSlave: Techno-orientalism After #MeToo -- On the Asian Fetish and the Fantasy of Equality -- Racist Hate, Racial Profiling, Pokémon at Auschwitz.

Summary:

"Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire, showing how attraction to Asianized objects and images functions as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence."--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937583786902486

ISBN:

1478022469
9781478022466

OCLC Number:

1285508185