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The term racist love is used by some Asian American social activists to describe a form of racism which they believe they feel.

Contents 1 Origin and concept 2 Criticism 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Origin and concept

The term racist love was coined by Frank Chin and Jeffery Paul Chan in a 1972 article by the same name. Chin and Chan differentiate between the terms racist hate and racist love. They distinguish between unacceptable stereotypes, such as Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril, which represent minorities who cannot be controlled by whites, and acceptable stereotypes, such as Charlie Chan and his Number One Son, which represent minorities who can be controlled by whites. Hence, acceptable stereotypes form the basis of racist love. When the perpetuation of such acceptable stereotypes reached a point as to be embodied and perpetuated by the race of people it represents, this race, as a social, creative, and cultural force, would have been successfully neutralized by white supremacy. They write:

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[edit] Criticism

Authors Sau-ling Wong and Jeffrey J. Santa Ana critcize Chin for being misogynist, homophobic, and for glorifying stereotypes of aggression:

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And Daniel Kim writes that Chin's work suggests that the self-contempt Chin and Chan write about comes not from conforming to "positive" stereotypes of Asians, but from becoming like the "white man":

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[edit] See also

• Asian fetish
• Racial fetishism

[edit] References

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