Becoming yellow : a short history of racial thinking /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keevak, Michael, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
1700-1899
Racism > Western countries > History > 18th century.
Racism > Western countries > History > 19th century.
Race awareness > Western countries > History > 18th century.
Race awareness > Western countries > History > 19th century.
East Asians > Race identity.
National characteristics, East Asian.
Racisme > Occident > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Racisme > Occident > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Conscience de race > Occident > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Conscience de race > Occident > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Est-Asiatiques > Identité ethnique.
Est-Asiatiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
National characteristics, East Asian
Race awareness
Racism
Ethnische Identität
Rassismus
Asiaten
Europäer
Rasism > historia.
Asiater > etnicitet.
Asiater > attityder till.
Western countries
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: no longer white: the nineteenth-century invention of yellowness
  • 1. Before they were yellow: East Asians in early travel and missionary reports
  • 2. Taxonomies of yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the making of a "Mongolian" race in the eighteenth century
  • 3. Nineteenth-century anthropology and the measurement of "Mongolian" skin color
  • 4. East Asian bodies in nineteenth-century medicine: the Mongolian eye, the Mongolian spot, and "Mongolism"
  • 5. Yellow peril: the threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895--1920.

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