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.

Introduction. Racist Love  1
1. Racial Transitional Objects: Anthropomorphic Animals and Other Asian Americans  25
2. Racist Cute: Caricature, Kawaii Style, and the Asian Thing  69
3. Asian ¿ Female ¿ Robot ¿ Slave: Techo-Orientalism after #MeToo  108
4. On the Asian Fetish and The Fantasy of Equality  153
Conclusion. Racist Hate, Racial Profiling, Pokémon at Auschwitz  191
Acknowledgments  201
Notes  205
References 237
Index  253

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.