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Apr 2, 2013 · Lum interviewed many white men who professed a preference for Asian women. She ended up following a man with a relatively extreme case of Asiaphilia for five years.
The derogatory term yellow fever is sometimes used to describe the fetishization of East Asians and Southeast Asian women by non-Asians, as well as having a preference for dating or marrying women of East Asian and Southeast Asian origin.
Oct 3, 2016 · I examine the case of preferences for Asian women, also known as ‘yellow fever’, to argue against the claim that racial fetishes are unobjectionable if they are merely based on personal or aesthetic preference rather than racial stereotypes.
- Robin Zheng
- 2016
Apr 8, 2016 · Despite being unfamiliar with the term as a child, “yellow fever”—that is, when a non-Asian person has a clear sexual preference for people of Asian descent—was never far out of reach.
- Gina Mei
- Buzzfeed Contributor
May 11, 2013 · It's hard to watch Seeking Asian Female, Debbie Lum's uncomfortably close look at the phenomenon some call "yellow fever" — when usually non-Asian men fetishize Asian women as romantic or...
- Kat Chow
Apr 2, 2013 · Lum interviewed many white men who professed a preference for Asian women. She ended up following a man with a relatively extreme case of Asiaphilia for five years.
In this video companion piece to the Independent Lens documentary, Seeking Asian Female, the filmmakers survey people in interracial relationships on the topic of yellow fever: Western white...
- 4 min
