Asian American Studies Annotated Bibliography

COMBAT FETISHIZING ASIAN WOMEN

Statement of the problem “Fetishization of the Asian women leads to detrimental and inaccurate stereotype and leads to the creation of staggering rates of violence.”

While there are some groups of the Asian community, who are granted some privileges than other communities of color, the current opportunities, and power structures dangerously and negatively impact the experience of the Asian women in unique ways. Their bodies are hypersexualized and eroticized while the perceived submissiveness of these women is erotized and glamourized. This study aims at explaining the alarming rates of violence as a result of fetishization

while showing a clear demonstration of the need to acknowledge that the racial discrimination behind such behaviors should be halted. It also explains how such sexism and racism that fuels the dangerous stereotypes leads to a clear link to the violence rates against the Asian women. It describes how fetishization has belittled and disgraced many of the Asian women leading to numerous of them developing some wrong perceptions and ill motives against the perpetrators (Dewey, 2016). The study also aims at explaining the various ways that can be employed to stop the dehumanization of the communities as well as individuals. It also aims at exploring the idea that the power that is abusively expressed to the Asian women forms part of the cultural Milieu and thus the abusers cannot be charged for their behavior. The survey instrument that was used here mainly covered the demographic information of the Asian women in America, information about instances they have been fetishized and the feelings that they have about the fetishization of the Asian women. Some follow up questions that will be designed will be used in adding the qualitative data. Such questions will mainly focus on the experiences of the respondents in a climate where fetishization of the Asian women is rampant.

References

Dewey, M. (2016). Sexualized, Submissive Stereotypes of Asian Women Lead to Staggering Rates of Violence - NNEDV. NNEDV. Retrieved 4 February 2018, from https://nnedv.org/latest_update/stereotypes-asian-women/