Racist Love by Leslie Bow

Racist Love by Leslie Bow

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.

“Thought-provoking and illuminatingProfessor 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 *
“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, Racist Love 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 *
"In Racist Love, 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 *
"After reading this book, one cannot doubt the severe psychic and physical damage that fantasies of Asian American cuteness incur on Asian Americans as well as others. . . . Racist Love is a much-needed, critical analysis of the baneful discourses that have contributed to historical and contemporary anti-Asian violence." -- Audrey Wu Clark * Society for US Intellectual History *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781478017851
ISBN 10	1478017856
Title	Racist Love
Author	Leslie Bow
Series	Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2022-03-04
Number of pages	280
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