Anna Storti is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence (Duke University Press, 2026). She is currently at work on a new book that examines the cultural politics of vice.
Anna Storti
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“Could I be an Asian girl?”: Racist Fantasy in HBO’s “The White Lotus”
Portraying the fall of the mighty is easy money, low-hanging fruit. Eat the rich! What’s riskier and harder to swallow are the moments when the viewer comes into contact with the white elite’s racist fantasies, which include the tendencies of prestige TV and its insufficient depictions of people of color.
