{"product_id":"racist-love-9781478017851","title":"Racist Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRacist Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thought-provoking and illuminating. Professor Bow’s analysis is both broad ranging and a deep dive into culture, history, psychology, and much more. Her work provides context, vocabulary, and insight—a powerful framework for understanding.” -- Charles Yu, author of * Interior Chinatown *\u003cbr\u003e“This book comes at a timely juncture—the latest reckoning of anti-Asian violence—and its analysis of the critical interplay of racial affects is deeply welcome. But Leslie Bow also asks much more of the reader in an incisive treatment that is vast in scope yet consistently uncompromising. If it has been possible until now to foster a sense of the inhuman contingencies of Asianness, \u003ci\u003eRacist Love\u003c\/i\u003e finally disabuses us of intrahuman fantasies of racial feeling and shows us how objects matter.” -- Mel Y. Chen, author of * Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eRacist Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Leslie Bow deep dives and shows how Asians and Asian Americans are reduced to objects of anxiety and desire in the United States.\" -- Casey Cha * International Examiner *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Racist Love  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Racial Transitional Objects: Anthropomorphic Animals and Other Asian Americans  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Racist Cute: Caricature, Kawaii Style, and the Asian Thing  69\u003cbr\u003e 3. Asian ● Female ● Robot ● Slave: Techo-Orientalism after #MeToo  108\u003cbr\u003e 4. On the Asian Fetish and The Fantasy of Equality  153\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Racist Hate, Racial Profiling, Pokémon at Auschwitz  191\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  201\u003cbr\u003e Notes  205\u003cbr\u003e References 237\u003cbr\u003e Index  253","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409006993751,"sku":"9781478017851","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017851.jpg?v=1730505065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racist-love-9781478017851","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}