{"id":11107,"date":"2023-10-05T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11107"},"modified":"2023-10-05T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:38:21","slug":"leslie-bow-racist-love","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/event\/leslie-bow-racist-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Bow, &#8220;Racist Love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>We are please to be a co-sponsor of this fall&#8217;s Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies Vilas Trust Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Racist Love: #MeToo and Techno-orientalism\u2019s Sexy Things&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leslie Bow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, English and Asian American Studies, Dorothy Draheim Professor of English, UW-Madison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, October 20, 2023<br>3:00pm-5:00pm<br>Lubar Entrepreneurship Center Rm 107<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/468\/2023\/10\/Leslie-Bow.webp\" alt=\"Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Vilas Trust Lecture Series\n\nRacist Love: #MeToo and Techno-orientalism\u2019s Sexy Things\n\nA lecture by Leslie Bow\n\nVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, English and Asian American Studies, Dorothy Draheim Professor of English, UW-Madison\n\nThis talk explores the ways that Asian Americans are subject to \u201cracist love,\u201d fetishistic attraction counter-intuitively linked to racial anxiety. 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