Becoming yellow
Subtitle: a short history of racial thinking
By: Michael Keevak
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780691140315
Subjects: East Asians; East Asian National characteristics; Race identity; Racism; Race awareness; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. No longer white : the nineteenth-century invention of yellowness -- Before they were yellow : East Asians in early travel and missionary reports -- Taxonomies of yellow : Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the making of a "Mongolian" race in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century anthropology and the measurement of "Mongolian" skin color -- East Asian bodies in nineteenth-century medicine : the Mongolian eye, the Mongolian spot, and "mongolism" -- Yellow peril: the threat of a "Mongolian" far east, 1895-1920.