| Description |
xii, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Decolonizing Scholarship -- Westernizing Europe -- Geo-Racial Mapping -- Anglo America's "Great Game" -- The Enemy Within -- The Coming War -- Epilogue: Uncle Sam and the Headless Chinaman. |
| Summary |
"The "yellow peril" is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western culture--indeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading historical memory, yellow peril ideology persists, animating, for example, campaign commercials from the 2012 presidential election. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, pop culture artifacts and political polemic. Written by two leading scholars and replete with paintings, photographs and images drawn from dime novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, polemical and pseudo-scholarly literature, and other pop culture ephemera, this book is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Asian Americans in popular culture -- History -- Sources.
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Asian Americans -- History -- Sources.
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Xenophobia -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Racism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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United States -- Race relations -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Tchen, John Kuo Wei, editor, author.
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Yeats, Dylan, editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9781781681237 paperback |
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1781681236 paperback |
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9781781681244 (hardcover) |
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1781681244 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
2013026694 |
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