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Fetishisation
As well as race-based sexual rejection, sexual racism also manifests in the form of the hypersexualisation of specific ethnic groups. Within the context of Freudian Sexual Fetishism, a person of one race forms a sexual fixation towards any individual of a separate generalised racial group. This collective stereotype is established through the perception that an individual’s sexual appeal derives entirely from their race, and is subject to the prejudices of said race, that influence the fetishisation.

Racial fetishism as a culture is often perceived in this context, as an act or belief motivated by sexual racism. The objectification and reductionist perception of different races, for example, East Asian women, or African American men, relies greatly on their portrayal in forms of media that depict them as sexual objects. An example of such a medium includes Pornography. An instance of this hypersexualisation is commented upon in Artist and Designer Donna Choi’s illustrative series targeting the specific fetishisation of Asian women, named, Does Your Man Suffer From Yellow Fever?(2013). In said illustration, Choi uses satire to depict a white man’s harmful perception of a "china doll stereotype" towards Asian woman and how she is an object to his desires. Choi’s intention comes across, implying an obvious dehumanisation of Asian women in the eyes of another race, as a commentary on the fetishisation rooted within the social issue of Sexual Racism.

The effects of Racial Fetishism as a form of Sexual Racism, is discussed in research conducted by Plummer. Through qualitative interviews within a given focus group, specific social locations came up as areas in which sexual racism manifests including pornographic media, gay clubs and bars, casual sex encounters as well as romantic relationships. This high prevalence was recorded within Plummer’s research to be related to the recorded lower self-esteem, internalised sexual racism, and increased psychological distress in participants of colour. People subject to this form of racial discernment are targeted in a manner well put by Hook and his historical overview of J.M. Coetzee's novel, addressing South African depictions of racial otherness. Coetzee goes on to write about how the otherness and social detachment from the colonials was what fabricated the present stereotypes that support the perception of the other racial group as fantasmatic objects; a degrading and generalising view of an entire racial group.