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 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: No Longer White
- Chapter 1. Before They Were Yellow
- Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Yellow
- Chapter 3. Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color
- Chapter 4. East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine
- Chapter 5. Yellow Peril
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index