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Becoming Yellow : A Short History of Racial Thinking /

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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Auteur principal: Keevak, Michael, 1962-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.