“Loving and Hating the Cute”: Audrey Wu Clark on Leslie Bow’s *Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy* | Society for US Intellectual History
Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy is an expertly-written, relevant, post-COVID-19 study that expands what Sianne Ngai has labelled “the cute” regarding ideas that shape aesthetic categories applied to Asian Americans (something to introduce core concept). Ngai defined “the cute” as “an aesthetic disclosing the surprisingly wide spectrum of feelings, ranging from