Becoming Yellow : : A Short History of Racial Thinking / / Michael Keevak.
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 th...
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Illustrations -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Introduction: No Longer White -- |t Chapter 1. Before They Were Yellow -- |t Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Yellow -- |t Chapter 3. Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color -- |t Chapter 4. East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- |t Chapter 5. Yellow Peril -- |t Notes -- |t Works Cited -- |t Index |
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520 | |a 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 texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. From the walls of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which depicted people of varying skin tones including yellow, to the phrase "yellow peril" at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe and America, Michael Keevak follows the development of perceptions about race and human difference. He indicates that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped with members of the Mongolian race, they began to be considered yellow. Demonstrating how a racial distinction took root in Europe and traveled internationally, Becoming Yellow weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term. | ||
530 | |a Issued also in print. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) | |
650 | 0 | |a East Asians |x Race identity. | |
650 | 0 | |a National characteristics, East Asian. | |
650 | 0 | |a Race awareness |z Western countries |x History |y 18th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Race awareness |z Western countries |x History |y 19th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Racism |z Western countries |x History |y 18th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Racism |z Western countries |x History |y 19th century. | |
650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a Carl Linnaeus. | ||
653 | |a China. | ||
653 | |a Chinese. | ||
653 | |a Down syndrome. | ||
653 | |a East Asian bodies. | ||
653 | |a East Asians. | ||
653 | |a Far East. | ||
653 | |a Franois Bernier. | ||
653 | |a Japan. | ||
653 | |a Japanese. | ||
653 | |a Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. | ||
653 | |a Mongolian bodies. | ||
653 | |a Mongolian eye. | ||
653 | |a Mongolian race. | ||
653 | |a Mongolian spot. | ||
653 | |a Mongolian. | ||
653 | |a Mongolianness. | ||
653 | |a Mongolism. | ||
653 | |a Sino-Japanese War. | ||
653 | |a Tartar. | ||
653 | |a Tom Pires. | ||
653 | |a Wilhelm II. | ||
653 | |a anatomical quantification. | ||
653 | |a anthropology. | ||
653 | |a color top. | ||
653 | |a homo sapiens. | ||
653 | |a human taxonomies. | ||
653 | |a medicine. | ||
653 | |a merchants. | ||
653 | |a missionaries. | ||
653 | |a race. | ||
653 | |a racial thinking. | ||
653 | |a racism. | ||
653 | |a skin color. | ||
653 | |a travel narrators. | ||
653 | |a whiteness. | ||
653 | |a yellow peril. | ||
653 | |a yellow race. | ||
653 | |a yellow. | ||
653 | |a yellowness. | ||
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