Becoming yellow : a short history of racial thinking / Michael Keevak.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781400838608
- 1400838606
- Racism -- Western countries -- History -- 18th century
- Racism -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century
- Race awareness -- Western countries -- History -- 18th century
- Race awareness -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century
- East Asians -- Race identity
- National characteristics, East Asian
- Racisme -- Occident -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Racisme -- Occident -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Conscience de race -- Occident -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Conscience de race -- Occident -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Est-Asiatiques -- Identité ethnique
- Est-Asiatiques
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General
- National characteristics, East Asian
- Race awareness
- Racism
- Western countries
- Ethnische Identität
- Rassismus
- Asiaten
- Europäer
- Rasism -- historia
- Asiater -- etnicitet
- Asiater -- attityder till
- 1700-1899
- 305.8009182/109033 22
- HT1523 .K44 2011eb
- EC136
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-210) and index.
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.
Print version record.
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 in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race
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