Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy

by Leslie Bow

Book Overview

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 d?cor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017856
• ISBN13: 9781478017851
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"