Racial Virtuality

""Danielle Wong's stunning analysis delivers one revelatory insight after another. Racial Virtuality takes the reader on an exhilarating journey across the terrain of racial algorithms, digital interfaces, and social media assemblages to examine the unfixed ontology of Asianness. Through a firmly materialist critique of racial capitalism, the book demonstrates how Asianness circulates as a new media form in a digital marketplace of commodified affects, gestures, and tastes. Offering a powerful intervention into Asian American studies, Wong's study foregrounds the way Asian virtuality opens up new ways of apprehending the political."" – Iyko Day, author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism ""An exceptionally well-grounded critical intervention into the study of race and emerging media, Racial Virtuality mobilizes an expansive archive of everyday and experimental digital forms. Danielle Wong persuasively demonstrates how racialization unfolds at non-representational scales, illuminating both the 'memetic' capture of Asian difference and the resistant potentials that persist within an Orientalized virtuality."" – Tara Fickle, author The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities ""Brilliantly analyzes how race shapes contemporary information technologies and new media. Racial Virtuality is at the cutting edge of attempts by scholars of race to understand how race shapes our material realities in digital worlds that are too often mistaken as fleeting, unreal, and ephemeral. In the process, Danielle Wong makes clear that while the pervasive techno-Orientalism of contemporary media reflects intensified exploitation and surveillance, racial virtuality also opens sites of gesture, performance, and pleasure that help us envision new forms of collective resistance."" – Neel Ahuja, author of Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century