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