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Author Keevak, Michael, 1962-

Title Becoming yellow : a short history of racial thinking / Michael Keevak.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (219 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-210) and index.
Contents Introduction: no longer white: the nineteenth-century invention of yellowness -- 1. Before they were yellow: East Asians in early travel and missionary reports -- 2. Taxonomies of yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the making of a "Mongolian" race in the eighteenth century -- 3. Nineteenth-century anthropology and the measurement of "Mongolian" skin color -- 4. East Asian bodies in nineteenth-century medicine: the Mongolian eye, the Mongolian spot, and "Mongolism" -- 5. Yellow peril: the threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895--1920.
Summary In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel t.
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Subject Racism -- Western countries -- History -- 18th century.
Racism.
Western countries.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Racism -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Race awareness -- Western countries -- History -- 18th century.
Race awareness.
Race awareness -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century.
East Asians -- Race identity.
East Asians.
National characteristics, East Asian.
National characteristics, East Asian.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Keevak, Michael, 1962- Becoming yellow. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691140315 (DLC) 2010046654 (OCoLC)679940690
ISBN 9781400838608 (electronic book)
1400838606 (electronic book)
9780691140315
0691140316