Yellow peril!
Subtitle: an archive of anti-Asian fear
By: edited and introduced by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781781681237; 9781781681244
Subjects: Asian Americans; Rassismus; Xenophobia; Racism; Asian Americans in popular culture; Ethnic Studies; Rasism; History; Race relations; Asian American Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Främlingsfientlighet; Sources; Fremdenfeindlichkeit; Asiaten; Ideologie; Propaganda
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Yellow Peril incarnate; title: pt. I. The imagined West; title: 1. Decolonizing scholarship; title: Mapping boundaries of difference and shared spaces, a visual essay (2013) / John Kuo Wei Tchen; title: Mapping : local gone global (2007) / John Kuo Wei Tchen; title: The theft of history (2006) / Jack Goody; title: Hemispheres of the globe (1884); title: Where is the West? Where is the East? / Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen; title: Positional superiority of Western knowledge (2012) / Linda Tuhiwai Smith; title: Occidentalism and modernity (1996) / Fernando Coronil; title: 2. Westernizing Europe; title: St. George and the dragon (1876); title: Eurasia; title: Eurasia : the horse and the wheel (2009) / David W. Anthony; title: Classical routes; title: Homer's Phoenicians (1995) / Irene J. Winter; title: Isocrates' Europe vs. Asia rhetoric (2004) / Benjamin Isaac; title: Greeks and multiple Barbarians (2005) / Adam Kuper; title: Rise of Western fundamentalism; title: Letter to Pope Urban II (1094/1095) / Alexios I. Komnenos; title: That detestable race of Satan (1240) / Matthew Paris; title: The story of god and Magog (1998) / Scott D. Westrem; title: Placing the Jews in late Medieval English literature (2002) / Suzanne Conklin Akbari; title: Christians on Saracens (2003) / John V. Tolan; title: Latin Christendom's "doctrine of discovery" : papal bulls, 145, 1455, 1493 (2013) / John Kuo Wei Tchen; title: The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494); title: Cantino Planisphere (1502); title: The westernization of Europe (1995) / Gerard Delanty.; title: pt. II. Manifest destinies; title: 3. Geo-racial mapping; title: Five categories of Homo Sapiens (1758) / Carl Linnaeus; title: Five races of mankind (1795) / Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; title: The development of color (1844) / Robert Chambers; title: Types of mankind (1854) / Samuel George Morton; title: Descendants of the great apes (1876) / Ernst Haeckel; title: The jolly giant's artist agrees with Darwin (1874); title: Existing facts of human ascent (1926) / Henry Fairfield Osborn; title: Hither and farther Asia (1837) / G.W.F. Hegel; title: Race and the Asiatic mode of production (1989) / Brendan O'Leary; title: John Stuart Mill's Asian parable (2001) / Robert Kurfirst; title: Gobineau on China as menace (1999) / Gregory Blue; title: World Cephalic Index (1897) / William Z. Ripley; title: Color map of the world (1903); title: Civilization stands up to the horde, a visual essay (2013) / Dylan Yeats; title: He vomits the Yellow to swallow the White (1904); title: The pressure of Asia (1904) / H.J. Mackinder; title: With faces like the snouts of dogs (1904) / Theodore Roosevelt; title: The Yellow peril (1904) / Jack London; title: 4. Anglo America's "great game"; title: Justice and the Indian revolt (1857); title: The year 1899 (1893) / William Ward Crane; title: The psychology of Colonialism (1988) / Ashis Nandy; title: Perilous frontiers (1994) / Gary Okihiro; title: The march of the flag (1898) / Albert Jeremiah Beveridge; title: It ought to be a happy new year (1899) / Victor Gillam; title: Trying on her new necklace (1907) / Luther Bradley; title: The Yellow danger (1898); title: Unknown (1939); title: Spectres of the great game (1998) / James L. Hevia; title: Modernity's (Yellow) perils (2006) / Urmila Seshagiri; title: the rising tide of color (1921); title: Amazing stories (1927).; title: pt. III. Indispensable enemies; title: 5. The enemy within; title: The promise and the peril, a visual essay (2013) / Dylan Yates; title: A statue for our harbor (1881) / George Frederick Keller; title: A Chinese view of the Statue of Liberty (1885) / Saum Song Bo; title: The Chinese Exclusion Case (1889); title: A peaceful invasion, a visual essay (2013) / Dylan Yates; title: National abjection (2002) / Karen Shimakawa; title: Racial triangulation theory (1999) / Claire Jean Kim; title: The turban tide (1908); title: Save our state from Oriental aggression (1918); title: The Mongol in our midst (1924); title: A future America (1916) / Randolph Bourne; title: The shape of fear (1926) / W.E.B. Du Bois; title: The marching Chinese (1929); title: Waiting for the signal from home (1942) / Theodor Seuss Geisel; title: The nature of the Mexican American criminal (1942) / Edward Duran Ayres; title: Goddamn brown monkeys (1946) / Carlos Bulosan; title: 12 Chinamen and a woman (1950); title: AutoWorld (1984) / Helen Zia; title: Is Japan really out to get us? (1992) / Robert B. Reich; title: Chinese professors (2013) / Dylan Yeats; title: Monster, terrorist, fag (2002) / Jasbir Puar and Amit Rai; title: 6. The coming war; title: Tomorrow (1939); title: Is this tomorrow? (1947); title: Patterns of a race war (1986) / John W. Dower; title: Remember Pearl Harbor (1942); title: The age of the world target (1998) / Rey Chow; title: Orientalist totalitarianism (1988) / William Pietz; title: Why the Yellow peril has turned Red! (1951) / Dan Gilbert; title: Red China's fighting hordes (1952); title: Orientalism and brainwashing in The Manchurian Candidate (2006) / Matthew Jacobson and Gasper Gonzales; title: GIDRA; title: Reimaging Vietnam (2000) / H. Bruce Franklin; title: Post-Vietnam syndrome (2008) / Myra Mendible; title: On our knees (2004) / Jesse Springer; title: Islam and the West : a clash of civilizations? (1999) / John Esposito; title: Militancy considerations : violence and adherence to the Torah, Bible, and Koran (2010); title: Orientalisms old and new in Battlestar Galactica (2012) / Eve Bennett; title: Epilogue: Uncle Sam and the headless Chinaman.