Racist Love

Abstract

How am I supposed to explain to a child the superimposition of cultural generalizations onto toy cars and monsters and space aliens? I can barely explain them to myself.-Stephen Marche, "How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids"The fundamental level of ideology, however, is not of an illusion masking the real state of things but that of an (unconscious) fantasy structuring our social real ity itself.-Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of IdeologyHow is race a source of plea sure in the twenty-first century? This book explores the overt and at times subtle ways in which social hierarchy becomes reinforced by positive feeling, particularly positive feeling surrounding Asian Americans.